12:00verdict at this hour
The split widened — KOSPI -2.21%, KOSDAQ +2.33%
As of 11:46 KST, KOSPI stands at -2.21% and KOSDAQ at +2.33%.Two hours earlier, in the morning-session edition, KOSPI was already down and KOSDAQ already up: the direction of the split is unchanged and only the gap has widened on both sides.On the KOSPI side Samsung Electronics is down to -7.64%, and SK hynix, which had been holding up alone in early trade, has turned to -1.04%.
12:00Snapshot
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As of 11:46 KST — KOSPI 6,759.88 · KOSDAQ 820.61
Top by trading value10— snapshot
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The spread at the top of KOSDAQ grew through the morning
ITCEN Global is at +23.2%, close to its high of +24.28% for the day.On the other side, Nearsl Lab is at -11.65%, which is up from its low of -17.23%.Elsewhere, ECOPRO is at +6.49%, Ingenia Therapeutics at +4.69% and Jusung Engineering at +1.07%.
| Stock | Prior close | Open | Gap | High (time) | 12:00 Current Price | Change | Low (time) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Samsung Electronics | 281,500 | 271,500 | −3.55% | 270,000 (09:01) | 260,000 (12:00) | −7.64% | 259,000 (11:07) |
| SK hynix | 1,730,000 | 1,775,000 | +2.60% | 1,792,000 (09:02) | 1,703,000 (12:00) | −1.56% | 1,696,000 (11:08) |
| Samsung Electronics (Pref.) | 207,000 | 197,400 | −4.64% | 195,100 (10:53) | 191,700 (12:00) | −7.39% | 188,500 (09:27) |
| Samsung Electro-Mechanics | 1,316,000 | 1,316,000 | +0.00% | 1,343,000 (10:18) | 1,322,000 (12:00) | +0.46% | 1,292,000 (09:26) |
| SK Square | 1,123,000 | 1,140,000 | +1.51% | 1,145,000 (09:02) | 1,076,000 (12:00) | −4.19% | 1,072,000 (11:07) |
| NAVER | 222,000 | 231,000 | +4.05% | 235,000 (09:35) | 223,000 (12:00) | +0.45% | 223,000 (11:09) |
| Samsung SDI | 478,000 | 489,500 | +2.41% | 522,000 (09:23) | 511,000 (12:00) | +6.90% | 486,500 (09:02) |
| Hanmi Pharmaceutical | 415,500 | 438,000 | +5.42% | 540,000 (11:33) | 540,000 (12:00) | +29.96% | 440,000 (09:01) |
| Samsung Life Insurance | 328,500 | 321,500 | −2.13% | 317,000 (09:04) | 292,500 (12:00) | −10.96% | 291,500 (11:52) |
| SK Telecom | 102,200 | 105,500 | +3.23% | 106,500 (09:23) | 104,000 (12:00) | +1.76% | 101,800 (10:08) |
Why these names moved could not be confirmed in today’s data; each is still marked as having no identified driver.Samsung Electronics carried a shareholder-return news line in early trade, but that marking is absent from the current data.No cause is attached here. Once flows and disclosures are filled in after the close, they will be looked at again.
Gainers5· Decliners5— snapshot
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Japan barely moved — today’s spread was made inside Korea
Japan’s morning session went into its Lunch BreakThe pause in Japanese equity trading from 11:30 to 12:30 local time.Japanese values are frozen during Korea’s midday, so a Japanese index quoted at that hour is a morning-session close. at 11:30 local time. The Nikkei 225 closed that session at -0.07%, and the Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF)A fund built to track an index and listed so that it trades like a share.Where the index itself is hard to obtain in real time, the price of a fund tracking it stands in as a proxy. tracking the TOPIXAn index weighting essentially all major Tokyo-listed shares by market value.Unlike the Nikkei 225, which leans heavily on high-priced shares, it shows the breadth of the market, so the two are read together. was at +0.26%.With the neighbouring market effectively flat, Korea’s two indices are more than 4 percentage points apart — today’s spread did not come from outside; it was made inside Korea.At the top of KOSPI Trading ValueThe total money value of shares bought and sold over a period.Being a money figure rather than a share count, it shows where capital concentrated that day., Samsung Electronics is at -7.64%, SK hynix -1.04%, Samsung Electronics preferred -6.96% and SK Square -3.74%; only Samsung Electro-Mechanics is up, at +0.61%.Investor flows by stock are not published while the session is open; they are filled in after 18:00 KST today.