{"id":127033,"date":"2025-10-17T01:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/127033\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T01:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:42:12","slug":"seoul-shares-open-lower-on-us-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/127033\/","title":{"rendered":"Seoul shares open lower on US losses"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"An An electronic board showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index at a dealing room of the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul on Friday. (Yonhap) <\/p>\n

Seoul shares opened lower Friday, tracking overnight losses on Wall Street amid lingering concerns over the fallout from escalating US-China trade tensions.<\/p>\n

The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index fell 19.87 points, or 0.53 percent, to 3,728.50 in the first 15 minutes of trading.<\/p>\n

The Kospi jumped 2.49 percent to close at a fresh all-time high of 3,748.37 points on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Overnight, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.65 percent while the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite declined 0.47 percent.<\/p>\n

US stocks came under pressure after reports of bad loans at two US banks stoked concerns about the credit market.<\/p>\n

In Seoul, large-cap stocks traded mixed.<\/p>\n

Market bellwether Samsung Electronics fell 0.2 percent, while leading home appliance maker LG Electronics declined 0.36 percent.<\/p>\n

National flag carrier Korean Air lost 0.45 percent, and defense firm Hanwha Aerospace shed 1.28 percent.<\/p>\n

Among gainers, top carmaker Hyundai Motor rose 1.24 percent and its smaller affiliate Kia climbed 0.72 percent.<\/p>\n

Hanwha Ocean, a shipbuilding arm of Hanwha Group, gained 2.43 percent and leading steelmaker Posco Holdings advanced 0.7 percent.<\/p>\n

The local currency was trading at 1,417.95 won against the greenback as of 9:15 a.m., down 0.05 won from the previous session’s close. (Yonhap)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An electronic board showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index at a dealing room of the Hana Bank…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[5402,79,18,19,17,5403,5399,5398,5404,188,5400,5401,5397,5406,5407,5405],"class_list":{"0":"post-127033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-asia-news","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-k-pop","14":"tag-koreaherald","15":"tag-korean-news","16":"tag-kpop","17":"tag-markets","18":"tag-south-korea-news","19":"tag-south-korea-news-in-english","20":"tag-the-korea-herald","21":"tag-5406","22":"tag-5407","23":"tag-5405"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}