People walk inside the Korea Exchange (KRX) building, as stock markets in Asia as a whole have been affected by the intensifying political turmoil over president Yoon Suk Yeol’s role in martial law, in Seoul, South Korea, on Dec. 9, 2024.

South Korean stocks opened higher Wednesday, despite Wall Street losses, on gains of tech and pharmaceuticals. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index added 10.71 points, or 0.43 percent ...

South Korea's Hyundai Motor Group said on Thursday it planned to boost domestic investment by 19% to a record high of 24.3 trillion won ($16.65 billion) this year to secure future growth even as it grapples with economic and political uncertainties.

People walk inside the Korea Exchange (KRX) building, as stock markets in Asia as a whole have been affected by the intensifying political turmoil over president Yoon Suk Yeol’s role in martial law, in Seoul, South Korea, on Dec. 9, 2024.

Investors in Asia await the Bank of Korea's rate decision later in the day, with economists polled by Reuters expecting the BOK to cut its policy rate by 25 basis points. Japan's benchmark Nikkei ...

This is CNBC's live blog covering Asia-Pacific markets. Asia-Pacific markets were set to mostly climb Thursday, after U.S. markets soared on the back of an unexpected decline in core inflation ...

Good news on the U.S. economy is back to being bad for Wall Street. The S&P 500 swung to a loss of 1.1% after a pair of reports on the

Daniel Henninger's weekly column, “Wonder Land,” appears in The Wall Street Journal each Thursday. Mr. Henninger was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing in 1987 and 1996 ...

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted videos Sunday of two North Korean soldiers captured while fighting in Russia's Kursk region. They are "the first captured soldiers from North Korea," but "there will undoubtedly be more," Zelenskyy said on X. He offered to exchange the North Korean prisoners for Ukrainian troops held in Russia.