S.Korean stocks, won end lower on new round of U.S. tariff threat

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17/09/2018 08:28

* KOSPI index closed lower, foreigners buy
    * Korean won falls versus U.S. dollar
    * South Korea bond yields up
    * For the midday report, please click  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL3N1W319O

    SEOUL, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Round-up of South Korean
financial markets:
** South Korea's KOSPI stock index  .KS11  and the currency
closed weaker on Monday amid reports that U.S. President Donald
Trump was about to announce a new round of tariffs on Chinese
imports. South Korean bond yields rose.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL2N1W0158
    
** While Monday's investor sentiment is similar to the time when
the United States and China imposed tariffs on each other in
June, the market is reacting a little less now, said Huh
Jae-hwan, an analyst at Eugene Investment & Securities. 
    
** At 0632 GMT, the KOSPI ended down 15.24 points or 0.66
percent at 2,303.01, snapping its big percentage gain from
Friday.
    
** South Korean broadcasting firms climbed ahead of live
broadcast of major events of the inter-Korean summit to be held
from Tuesday to Thursday in Pyongyang. YTN  040300.KQ , which
provides a 24-hour news channel, closed up 7.8 percent.
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** The won was quoted at 1,126.6 per dollar on the onshore
settlement platform  KRW=KFTC , 0.89 percent weaker than its
previous close at 1,116.6, reaching the biggest percentage loss
since Aug. 10. 
    
** In offshore trading, the won  KRW=  was quoted at 1,127.03
per U.S. dollar, down 0.57 percent from the previous day, while
in one-year non-deliverable forwards  KRWNDFOR=  it was being
transacted at 1,109.6 per dollar. 
    
** MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan
 .MIAPJ0000PUS  was down 0.99 percent, after U.S. stocks ended
the previous session with mild gains  MKTS/GLOB . Japanese
stocks  .N225  rose 1.2 percent. 
    
** The KOSPI is down around 6 percent so far this year, and up
by 2.12 percent in the previous 30 days.
    
** The current price-to-earnings ratio is 12.10, the dividend
yield is 1.28 percent and the market capitalisation is 1,242.04
trillion won. 
    
** The trading volume during the session on the KOSPI index
 .KS11  was 339,317,000 shares and, of the total traded issues
of 897, the number of advancing shares was 236.
    
** Foreigners were net buyers of 169,490 million won worth of
shares.
    
** The U.S dollar rose 5.69 percent against the won this year.
The won's high for the year is 1,053.55 per dollar on April 2,
2018 and low is 1,140.4 on July 19, 2018.
    
** In money and debt markets, September futures on three-year
treasury bonds  KTBc1  dropped 0.03 points to 108.74.
    
** The Korean 3-month Certificate of Deposit benchmark rate was
quoted at 1.65 percent, while the benchmark 3-year Korean
treasury bond yielded 1.965 percent, higher than the previous
day's 1.96 percent.

 (Reporting by Joori Roh, Editing by Sherry Jacob-Phillips)
 ((joori.roh@thomsonreuters.com;))