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

[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 trading day.
The KOSPI opened at 8,813.18, down 117.12 points, or 1.31%, from the previous session, and extended its losses. In the Korea Exchange Main Board, individual investors and institutions are buying 1.1162 trillion won and 52 billion won worth of shares, respectively.
Foreign investors, however, are weighing on the index 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 in decline.
SK Square (-8.43%), SK hynix (-5.04%), Samsung Electronics (-4.53%), Doosan Enerbility (-3.99%), and Hyundai Motor Company (-3.68%) are among the biggest decliners.
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%, earlier in the day.
The won–dollar exchange rate opened at 1,547.3 won, up 4.6 won from the previous day.


khj91@fnnews.com Kim Hyun-jung Reporter