{"id":309462,"date":"2025-10-17T01:14:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/309462\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T01:14:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:14:16","slug":"seoul-shares-open-lower-on-us-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/309462\/","title":{"rendered":"Seoul shares open lower on US losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/news-p.v1.20251017.272a22b2d40f4a778c81c0118d158515_P1.jpg\" alt=\"An electronic board showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index at a dealing room of the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul on Friday. (Yonhap)\"\/>     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<p>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<p>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<p>The Kospi jumped 2.49 percent to close at a fresh all-time high of 3,748.37 points on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Overnight, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.65 percent while the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite declined 0.47 percent.<\/p>\n<p>US stocks came under pressure after reports of bad loans at two US banks stoked concerns about the credit market.<\/p>\n<p>In Seoul, large-cap stocks traded mixed.<\/p>\n<p>Market bellwether Samsung Electronics fell 0.2 percent, while leading home appliance maker LG Electronics declined 0.36 percent.<\/p>\n<p>National flag carrier Korean Air lost 0.45 percent, and defense firm Hanwha Aerospace shed 1.28 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Among gainers, top carmaker Hyundai Motor rose 1.24 percent and its smaller affiliate Kia climbed 0.72 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Hanwha Ocean, a shipbuilding arm of Hanwha Group, gained 2.43 percent and leading steelmaker Posco Holdings advanced 0.7 percent.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":309463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[6466,64,6467,6463,6462,2860,135,6464,6465,6461,67,132,68,6469,6470,6468],"class_list":{"0":"post-309462","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-k-pop","11":"tag-koreaherald","12":"tag-korean-news","13":"tag-kpop","14":"tag-markets","15":"tag-south-korea-news","16":"tag-south-korea-news-in-english","17":"tag-the-korea-herald","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-6469","22":"tag-6470","23":"tag-6468"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115386860539178433","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}