{"id":52497,"date":"2024-03-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myanmarnewswire.com\/?guid=d6908c2290d1a4aaecf0e73308fac3cf"},"modified":"2024-03-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T00:00:00","slug":"seoul-shares-start-lower-despite-u-s-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myanmarnewswire.com\/seoul-shares-start-lower-despite-u-s-gains\/","title":{"rendered":"Seoul shares start lower despite U.S. gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><br \/>\nSouth Korean stocks opened a tad lower Thursday despite gains on Wall Street.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) lost 1.98 points, or 0.07 percent, to 2,753.13 in the first 15 minutes of trading.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. stocks finished higher to end their three-day losing streak on Wednesday (U.S. time). The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 1.2 percent, and the Nasdaq composite gained 0.5 percent.<\/p>\n<p>In Seoul, large-cap shares led the bearish start.<\/p>\n<p>Leading battery maker LG Energy Solution dropped 1.1 percent, and chemicals company LG Chem skidded 0.45 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Top carmaker Hyundai Motor retreated 0.61 percent, and No. 1 mobile carrier SK Telecom slid 1.11 percent.<\/p>\n<p>But chipmakers were in positive territory, with Samsung Electronics rising 0.38 percent and SK hynix advancing 0.28 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The local currency was trading at 1,352.4 won against the U.S. dollar, down 3.7 won from the previous session&#8217;s close.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Yonhap News Agency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean stocks opened a tad lower Thursday despite gains on Wall Street.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) lost 1.98 points, or 0.07 percent, to 2,753.13 in the first 15 minutes of trading.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. stocks finished higher to e&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Seoul shares start lower despite U.S. gains - Myanmar Newswire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/myanmarnewswire.com\/seoul-shares-start-lower-despite-u-s-gains\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Seoul shares start lower despite U.S. gains - Myanmar Newswire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"South Korean stocks opened a tad lower Thursday despite gains on Wall Street. 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