{"id":43104,"date":"2025-01-16T08:30:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T03:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/?p=43104"},"modified":"2025-01-16T08:30:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T03:00:19","slug":"asian-markets-kospi-jumps-1-20-in-morning-trading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/east-asia\/south-korea\/asian-markets-kospi-jumps-1-20-in-morning-trading\/43104\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian markets: KOSPI jumps 1.20% in morning trading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) climbed 1.20% to 2,526.67 KRW as of 11:50 am Thursday, 16 January 2025 (GMT+9).<\/p>\n<p>The market opened at 2,528.27 KRW and ranged between 2,524.67 and 2,534.01 KRW during early trading hours. This represents a notable gain of 29.85 points from the previous close of 2,496.82 KRW.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About KOSPI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The KOSPI, a capitalization-weighted index introduced in 1983 with a base value of 100, tracks all common shares of the Korea Stock Exchange, including industry leaders like Samsung Electronics and Hyundai Motor. Its performance is a key indicator for those monitoring the Asian financial markets.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Disclaimer<\/strong>:<\/em> This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Always conduct your own research before making any financial decisions. Past performance does not guarantee future results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) climbed 1.20% to 2,526.67 KRW as of 11:50 am Thursday, 16 January 2025\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":28199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43104","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\/43104","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=43104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43110,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43104\/revisions\/43110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}