KOSPI Falls More Than 3% on Foreign Selling, Slips to the 8,500 Level [Financial News Morning Market Report]

[Financial News] The KOSPI is falling by more than 3% on foreign selling on the 26th.
As of 9:36 a.m. that day, the KOSPI was trading at 8,589.50, down 340.80 points, or 3.82%, from the previous session.
The KOSPI opened at 8,813.18, down 117.12 points, or 1.31%, from the previous session, and widened its losses. In the domestic stock market, individual investors and institutions are buying 1.1162 trillion won and 52 billion won worth of shares, respectively.
Foreign investors, however, are dragging the index lower by selling 1.1671 trillion won worth of shares. Among the 14 largest companies by market capitalization, all but Samsung Electro-Mechanics (0.80%) and KB Financial Group (0.07%) are trading lower.
The biggest declines are in SK Square (-8.43%), SK hynix (-5.04%), Samsung Electronics (-4.53%), Doosan Enerbility (-3.99%), and Hyundai Motor Company (-3.68%).
The KOSDAQ index is trading at 862.20, down 25.61 points, or 2.88%, from the previous session. The index opened at 884.43, down 3.38 points, or 0.38%.
The won–dollar exchange rate opened at 1,547.3 won, up 4.6 won from the previous day.
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