{"id":43520,"date":"2025-01-31T20:19:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T14:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/?p=43520"},"modified":"2025-01-31T20:33:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T15:03:56","slug":"stock-market-news-kospi-falls-0-77-as-market-closes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/east-asia\/south-korea\/stock-market-news-kospi-falls-0-77-as-market-closes\/43520\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian markets: KOSPI falls 0.77% as market closes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) ended lower on Friday, closing at 2,517.38 KRW, down 19.43 points (-0.77%) as of 11:44 pm, January 31, 2025 (GMT+9).<\/p>\n<p>The index opened at 2,534.33 KRW and fluctuated between 2,496.95 KRW and 2,537.98 KRW throughout the trading session.<\/p>\n<p>This decline comes after the previous close of 2,536.81 KRW. While some sectors saw moderate gains, the overall market struggled to sustain momentum.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About KOSPI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The KOSPI, a capitalization-weighted index, tracks all common shares listed on the Korea Exchange, including major players like Samsung Electronics and Hyundai Motor. Given its composition, the index is a crucial barometer for South Korea\u2019s financial market health and economic outlook. Market watchers continue to assess domestic and international developments that could impact future performance.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Disclaimer:<\/em><\/strong> Stock market investments are subject to risks. please conduct thorough research before making financial decisions. past performance is not indicative of future results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) ended lower on Friday, closing at 2,517.38 KRW, down 19.43 points (-0.77%) 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-43520","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\/43520","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=43520"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43529,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43520\/revisions\/43529"}],"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=43520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}