Investment caution is only a stage where the Korea Exchange publicly flags concentrated trading by a few accounts; the official guide lists no trading restrictions. The 100% cash margin deposit and the ban on buying on...

The won's value against many currencies (the nominal effective exchange rate) reached 94.83 on Oct. 20, its highest in about two years, but it is still more than 6 points below the average of 101 that the BOK...

Break down the 0.69% bank delinquency rate at the end of August and small corporations are at 1.10%, non-mortgage household loans at 0.91% and sole proprietors at 0.86%, far above large companies (0.39%) and mortgages (0.31%). With new delinquencies (3 trillion won, about...

Jobs and inflation statistics are last month's report card, while a stock price is today's value on the money a company will earn later. Even when the data look fine, a change in the outlook for rates, earnings, stretched valuations or crowded...

This year the KOSPI has recovered all four times it fell more than 10%, taking an average of 14.25 trading days, but the 8,000 level it lost in the 10.4% plunge in early July has yet to...

Korea Investment & Securities is offering 5.0% a year for one year (new money) and Kiwoom Securities 5.8% a year for three months on brokerage notes, but unlike bank deposits, these are not covered by deposit insurance, under which the Korea...

In the 24 hours to Oct. 9, $356 million of Ether bets were liquidated, more than Bitcoin's $298 million even though Bitcoin is more than five times bigger. The size of the drop is...

On Oct. 7, 38% of France's high-grade corporate bonds, about €215 billion ($241 billion) worth, traded at lower yields than French government bonds. It means investors trust many French companies more...

The U.S. benchmark rate is one percentage point lower than two years ago, yet the 10-year Treasury yield rose 1.54 points, and 0.91 points of that was the extra pay for tying up money for a long time (the...