{"id":42942,"date":"2025-01-10T08:54:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T03:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/?p=42942"},"modified":"2025-01-10T08:54:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T03:24:20","slug":"asian-markets-kospi-gains-0-12-as-trading-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/east-asia\/south-korea\/asian-markets-kospi-gains-0-12-as-trading-begins\/42942\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian markets: KOSPI gains 0.12% as trading begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) opened the day on a positive note, climbing 0.12% to 2,524.91 KRW as of 12:21 pm Friday, 10 January 2025 (GMT+9). The index, which tracks all common shares on the Korea Stock Exchange, gained 3.00 KRW from its previous close of 2,521.91 KRW.<\/p>\n<p>The trading day began with an opening value of 2,528.42 KRW, but the index has since fluctuated between 2,506.29 to 2,535.24 KRW.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About KOSPI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The KOSPI is a critical benchmark for investors monitoring the performance of South Korean corporate giants such as Samsung Electronics and Hyundai Motor.<\/p>\n<p>Introduced in 1983 with a base value of 100, the KOSPI provides an essential snapshot of the South Korean economy and is a key indicator for those invested in Asian markets.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Disclaimer: <\/strong><\/em>This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) opened the day on a positive note, climbing 0.12% to 2,524.91 KRW as\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":24013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-korea"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42943,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42942\/revisions\/42943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}