Money moves from US, China to India for higher returns

Money moves from US, China to India for higher returns

For investors looking for higher returns in emerging markets, India is undoubtedly a market darling.The Asian country, widely expected to become the...

S.Korea’s hottest stock EcoPro may miss invitation from MSCI Korea in May

S.Korea’s hottest stock EcoPro may miss invitation from MSCI Korea in May

Cosmo Advanced Materials & Technology Co. and Hanwha Aerospace Co. are expected to join the MSCI Korea Index next month but South Korea’s ...

Korean fintech sector struggles amid liquidity drought

Korean fintech sector struggles amid liquidity drought

A three-year-old South Korean fintech company is having trouble raising money through a Series B funding round as investor sentiment on the sector h...

Nine out of 10 VC heads in S.Korea say startups overvalued: Survey

Nine out of 10 VC heads in S.Korea say startups overvalued: Survey

Heads of South Korea’s leading venture capital firms say domestic startups have entered a phase of overvaluation. The Korea Economic Dail...

LG Energy faces reality check as its stock turns a market laggard

LG Energy faces reality check as its stock turns a market laggard

South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. was touted as a market darling even before its Kospi debut last month, reflecting the investor fr...

Kospi short sales hit $639 mn amid rate hike woes

Kospi short sales hit $639 mn amid rate hike woes

Short selling on the Korean stock market is soaring rapidly on concerns over the US Fed Reserve’s interest rate hike. Particularly, a large ...

Race for CJ Olive Young IPO underwriting deal heats up

Race for CJ Olive Young IPO underwriting deal heats up

The competition to underwrite a listing of CJ Olive Young, South Korea’s top beauty store chain, is intensifying with some brokerage houses va...

Tencent-backed Krafton's mega IPO seen as overvalued

Tencent-backed Krafton's mega IPO seen as overvalued

South Korea-based game publisher Krafton Inc.'s highly-anticipated initial public offering is raising concerns that it may be overvalued. The compan...

Korea's travel agency stocks overvalued, analysts say

Korea's travel agency stocks overvalued, analysts say

The stock prices of South Korea’s two leading travel agencies, HanaTour Service Inc. and Modetour Network Inc., have skyrocketed in 2021 with ...

SK Hynix’s $9 bn Intel NAND deal ‘not overvalued’: CEO

SK Hynix’s $9 bn Intel NAND deal ‘not overvalued’: CEO

SK Hynix Inc.’s $9 billion deal to acquire Intel Corp.’s NAND memory chip business is not overvalued as the price tag reflects the US firm...

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