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Asian Stocks Mostly Downโ€ฆ KOSPI Plunges 6.6%, Oil Prices Also Fall

Asian Stocks Mostly Downโ€ฆ KOSPI Plunges 6.6%, Oil Prices Also Fall

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July 16th, 2026

Asian Stocks Mostly Downโ€ฆ KOSPI Plunges 6.6%, Oil Prices Also Fall

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Asian stock markets mostly declined on Thursday, and oil prices also fell despite a series of airstrikes between the United States and Iran.

๋ชฉ์š”์ผ ์•„์‹œ์•„ ์ฃผ์‹ ์‹œ์žฅ์€ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ํ•˜๋ฝ์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์ด๋ž€ ๊ฐ„์˜ ์ผ๋ จ์˜ ๊ณต์Šต์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์œ ๊ฐ€ ์—ญ์‹œ ํ•˜๋ฝํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The US futures market is maintaining a positive trajectory, exhibiting a modest upward trend.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์„ ๋ฌผ ์‹œ์žฅ์€ ์™„๋งŒํ•œ ์ƒ์Šน์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๋ฉฐ ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ํ๋ฆ„์„ ์ด์–ด๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Selling pressure on artificial intelligence-related stocks exerted downward pressure on major indices in South Korea and Japan.

์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ ๊ด€๋ จ ์ฃผ์‹์˜ ๋งค๋„์„ธ๊ฐ€ ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์ผ๋ณธ์˜ ์ฃผ์š” ์ง€์ˆ˜์— ํ•˜๋ฐฉ ์••๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The Bank of Korea's benchmark interest rate hike triggered a 6.6% plunge in the KOSPI index, contributing to its closure at the 6,816.70 level.

ํ•œ๊ตญ์€ํ–‰์˜ ๊ธฐ์ค€๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ƒ ์กฐ์น˜๊ฐ€ ์ฝ”์Šคํ”ผ ์ง€์ˆ˜์˜ 6.6% ๊ธ‰๋ฝ์„ ์ดˆ๋ž˜ํ•˜๋ฉฐ 6,816.70์„ ์—์„œ ์žฅ์„ ๋งˆ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ผ์กฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

This was the first rate increase implemented by the Bank of Korea since 2023, a strategic decision aimed at curbing inflationary pressures sparked by the Iran war.

์ด๋Š” 2023๋…„ ์ดํ›„ ํ•œ๊ตญ์€ํ–‰์ด ๋‹จํ–‰ํ•œ ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ƒ์œผ๋กœ, ์ด๋ž€ ์ „์Ÿ์œผ๋กœ ์ด‰๋ฐœ๋œ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ์••๋ ฅ์„ ์–ต์ œํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ „๋žต์  ๊ฒฐ์ •์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

SK Hynix, a memory chip manufacturer, plummeted by 11.2%, while Samsung Electronics only fell by 8.2%.

๋ฉ”๋ชจ๋ฆฌ ์นฉ ์ œ์กฐ์‚ฌ์ธ SKํ•˜์ด๋‹‰์Šค๋Š” 11.2% ๊ธ‰๋ฝํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์‚ผ์„ฑ์ „์ž๋Š” 8.2% ํ•˜๋ฝํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๊ทธ์ณค๋‹ค.

Taiwan's Taiex index fell by 0.3%, a movement that occurred ahead of the earnings announcement of TSMC, a Taiwanese chip manufacturer frequently cited as a barometer for the global industry and the AI boom.

๋Œ€๋งŒ ์ž์ทจ์•ˆ ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” 0.3% ํ•˜๋ฝํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์‚ฐ์—…๊ณผ AI ๋ถ์˜ ์ง€ํ‘œ๋กœ ์ž์ฃผ ์ธ์šฉ๋˜๋Š” ๋Œ€๋งŒ ์นฉ ์ œ์กฐ์‚ฌ TSMC์˜ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์•ž๋‘๊ณ  ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚œ ์›€์ง์ž„์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

The U.S. futures market is showing a positive trend, with a slight upward movement.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์„ ๋ฌผ ์‹œ์žฅ์€ ์†Œํญ ์ƒ์Šนํ•˜๋Š” ์ถ”์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด๋ฉฐ ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ํ๋ฆ„์„ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Tokyo's Nikkei 225 index closed at 66,767.64, down 2.9%.

๋„์ฟ„ ๋‹›์ผ€์ด 225 ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” 2.9% ํ•˜๋ฝํ•œ 66,767.64๋กœ ๋งˆ๊ฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Shares of Japanese memory chip manufacturer Kioxia plummeted 13.5%, while semiconductor equipment maker Tokyo Electron fell 5.2% and chip testing equipment manufacturer Advantest dropped 5.6%.

์ผ๋ณธ ๋ฉ”๋ชจ๋ฆฌ ์นฉ ์ œ์กฐ์‚ฌ ํ‚ค์˜ฅ์‹œ์•„์˜ ์ฃผ๊ฐ€๋Š” 13.5% ํญ๋ฝํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฐ˜๋„์ฒด ์ œ์กฐ ์žฅ๋น„ ๊ธฐ์—… ๋„์ฟ„์ผ๋ ‰ํŠธ๋ก ์€ 5.2%, ์นฉ ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ ์žฅ๋น„ ์ œ์กฐ์‚ฌ ์–ด๋“œ๋ฐดํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ๋Š” 5.6% ๊ฐ๊ฐ ํ•˜๋ฝํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

SoftBank Group's stock price plummeted by 6.4%, amplifying investors' concerns.

์†Œํ”„ํŠธ๋ฑ…ํฌ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์˜ ์ฃผ๊ฐ€๋Š” 6.4% ๊ธ‰๋ฝํ•˜๋ฉฐ ํˆฌ์ž์ž๋“ค์˜ ์šฐ๋ ค๋ฅผ ์ฆํญ์‹œ์ผฐ๋‹ค.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index rose 1.7% to 25,111.22, marking a rare uptrend in the region.

ํ™์ฝฉ ํ•ญ์… ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” 1.7% ์˜ค๋ฅธ 25,111.22๋กœ ์ง€์—ญ ๋‚ด์—์„œ ๋“œ๋ฌธ ์ƒ์Šน์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์˜€๋‹ค.

After China's cyberspace regulator announced on Wednesday that it had approved the use of Apple Intelligence AI tools in China, Alibaba's Hong Kong-listed shares surged 4.4%.

์ค‘๊ตญ ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฒ„ ๊ณต๊ฐ„ ๊ทœ์ œ ๋‹น๊ตญ์ด ์ˆ˜์š”์ผ ์• ํ”Œ ์ธํ…”๋ฆฌ์ „์Šค AI ๋„๊ตฌ์˜ ์ค‘๊ตญ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์„ ์Šน์ธํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํžŒ ํ›„, ์•Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฐ”๋ฐ”์˜ ํ™์ฝฉ ์ƒ์žฅ ์ฃผ์‹์€ 4.4% ์˜ฌ๋ž๋‹ค.

An Alibaba spokesperson stated that the Qwen model would be integrated into Apple Intelligence.

์•Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฐ”๋ฐ” ๋Œ€๋ณ€์ธ์€ Qwen ๋ชจ๋ธ์ด ์• ํ”Œ ์ธํ…”๋ฆฌ์ „์Šค์— ํ†ตํ•ฉ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ „ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The Shanghai Composite Index ended the trading session down 0.9%, closing at 3,921.20 points.

์ƒํ•˜์ด ์ข…ํ•ฉ ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” 0.9% ํ•˜๋ฝํ•˜๋ฉฐ 3,921.20ํฌ์ธํŠธ๋กœ ์žฅ์„ ๋งˆ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๊ทธ์ณค๋‹ค.

Australia's S&P/ASX 200 index showed a bearish trend, recording a 0.2% decline to 8,820.50 points.

ํ˜ธ์ฃผ S&P/ASX 200 ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” 0.2% ํ•˜๋ฝํ•œ 8,820.50ํฌ์ธํŠธ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์•ฝ์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์˜€๋‹ค.

India's Sensex index managed only a 0.3% rise.

์ธ๋„ ์„ผ์„น์Šค ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” 0.3% ์ƒ์Šนํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๊ทธ์ณค๋‹ค.

Oil prices initially fell early on Thursday, but remained elevated as the United States intensified its airstrikes against Iran and Iran launched missile and drone attacks targeting Kuwait and Bahrain.

๋ชฉ์š”์ผ ์ดˆ๋ฐ˜ ์œ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ํ•˜๋ฝ์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์˜€์œผ๋‚˜, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ด ์ด๋ž€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ณต์Šต์„ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ด๋ž€์ด ์ฟ ์›จ์ดํŠธ์™€ ๋ฐ”๋ ˆ์ธ์„ ํ–ฅํ•ด ๋ฏธ์‚ฌ์ผ ๋ฐ ๋“œ๋ก  ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์„ ๊ฐํ–‰ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋†’์€ ์ˆ˜์ค€์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Brent crude, the international benchmark, fell by 0.4% to $84.55 per barrel.

๊ตญ์ œ ๊ธฐ์ค€ ๋ธŒ๋ ŒํŠธ์œ ๋Š” 0.4% ํ•˜๋ฝํ•œ ๋ฐฐ๋Ÿด๋‹น 84.55๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Prior to the outbreak of the war, at the end of February, it had remained at around $72 per barrel.

์ „์Ÿ์ด ๋ฐœ๋ฐœํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ด์ „์ธ 2์›” ๋ง์—๋Š” ๋ฐฐ๋Ÿด๋‹น 72๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ˆ˜์ค€์— ๋จธ๋ฌผ๋Ÿฌ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

When measured against the US market, crude oil prices fell by 0.2%, settling at $79.34 per barrel.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์‹œ์žฅ์„ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ํ•  ๋•Œ, ์›์œ  ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์€ 0.2% ํ•˜๋ฝํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฐฐ๋Ÿด๋‹น 79.34๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

ING commodity strategists Warren Patterson and Ewa Manthey stated in a Thursday commentary that "with little sign of easing tensions between the US and Iran, oil prices barely managed to sustain their upward trend for a third consecutive trading day."

ING ์ƒํ’ˆ ์ „๋žต๊ฐ€ ์›Œ๋ Œ ํŒจํ„ฐ์Šจ๊ณผ ์—์™€ ๋งจ์‹œ๋Š” ๋ชฉ์š”์ผ ๋…ผํ‰์—์„œ "๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์ด๋ž€ ๊ฐ„์˜ ๊ธด์žฅ ์™„ํ™” ์กฐ์ง์ด ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์—†๋Š” ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ ์œ ๊ฐ€๋Š” 3๊ฑฐ๋ž˜์ผ ์—ฐ์† ์ƒ์Šน์„ธ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ„์‹ ํžˆ ์œ ์ง€ํ–ˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

The escalating US-Iran tensions "are having a significant impact on the flow of vessels through the Persian Gulf," they added, noting that tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial waterway for global crude oil transport, remains under pressure.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ-์ด๋ž€ ๊ธด์žฅ ๊ณ ์กฐ๋Š” "ํŽ˜๋ฅด์‹œ์•„๋งŒ์„ ํ†ตํ•œ ์„ ๋ฐ• ํ๋ฆ„์— ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค"๋ฉฐ, ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์›์œ  ์ˆ˜์†ก์˜ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์ˆ˜๋กœ์ธ ํ˜ธ๋ฅด๋ฌด์ฆˆ ํ•ดํ˜‘์„ ํ†ตํ•œ ์œ ์กฐ์„  ํ†ตํ–‰์ด ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์••๋ฐ•์„ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ง๋ถ™์˜€๋‹ค.

On Wednesday, Wall Street's S&P 500 index closed at 7,572.40, up 0.4%.

์ˆ˜์š”์ผ ์›”์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฌํŠธ์˜ S&P 500 ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” 0.4% ์ƒ์Šนํ•œ 7,572.40์— ๋งˆ๊ฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.3% to 52,658.64, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index gained 0.6% to 26,269.23.

๋‹ค์šฐ์กด์Šค ์‚ฐ์—…ํ‰๊ท ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” 0.3% ์˜ค๋ฅธ 52,658.64๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ฃผ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์˜ ๋‚˜์Šค๋‹ฅ ์ข…ํ•ฉ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” 0.6% ์ƒ์Šนํ•œ 26,269.23์„ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋ƒˆ๋‹ค.

Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX fell below its initial public offering (IPO) price of $135 before recovering some of its losses.

์ผ๋ก  ๋จธ์Šคํฌ์˜ ๋กœ์ผ“ ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์ŠคํŽ˜์ด์ŠคX๋Š” ๊ธฐ์—…๊ณต๊ฐœ(IPO) ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ธ 135๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์•„๋ž˜๋กœ ํ•˜๋ฝํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์ผ๋ถ€ ์†์‹ค์„ ๋งŒํšŒํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

A report indicating a slowdown in US inflation for June, along with strong earnings from major companies such as BlackRock, drove the market's upward movement.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ 6์›” ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ๋‘”ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ์™€ ๋ธ”๋ž™๋ก ๋“ฑ ์ฃผ์š” ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์˜ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์‹ค์ ์ด ์‹œ์žฅ ์ƒ์Šน์„ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

After BlackRock reported quarterly revenue and profits that exceeded expectations, its stock price surged by 6.6%.

๋ธ”๋ž™๋ก์€ ์˜ˆ์ƒ์น˜๋ฅผ ์›ƒ๋„๋Š” ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถœ๊ณผ ์ด์ต์„ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ•œ ํ›„ ์ฃผ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ 6.6% ๊ธ‰๋“ฑํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

In other trading early Thursday, the US dollar fell from 162.19 yen to 162.09 yen.

๋ชฉ์š”์ผ ์ดˆ๋ฐ˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜์—์„œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋Š” 162.19์—”์—์„œ 162.09์—”์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๋ฝํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The euro edged up from $1.1464 to $1.1467.

์œ ๋กœ๋Š” 1.1464๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์—์„œ 1.1467๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์†Œํญ ์ƒ์Šนํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

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US diesel prices surpass $6 per gallon, increasing the burden of transporting everyday goods

US diesel prices surpass $6 per gallon, increasing the burden of transporting everyday goods

๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋””์ ค ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ, ๊ฐค๋Ÿฐ๋‹น 6๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ŒํŒŒ๋กœ ์ผ์ƒ์šฉํ’ˆ ์šด์†ก ๋ถ€๋‹ด ๊ฐ€์ค‘

C1Sep 11
With the Middle East conflict driving oil prices painfully high, there is no sign of inflation easing.

With the Middle East conflict driving oil prices painfully high, there is no sign of inflation easing.

์ค‘๋™ ์ถฉ๋Œ๋กœ ์œ ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ๊ณ ํ†ต์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ์ˆ˜์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์น˜์†Ÿ์•„ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ์™„ํ™” ๊ธฐ๋ฏธ๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์ด์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค

C1Sep 11
Diesel prices are hitting record highs at a difficult time for American farmers

Diesel prices are hitting record highs at a difficult time for American farmers

๋””์ ค ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋†๋ถ€๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ํž˜๋“  ์‹œ๊ธฐ์— ์ตœ๊ณ ์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค

C1Sep 11
Canadaโ€“US trade war intensifies after Carneyโ€™s tariff retaliation: what you need to know

Canadaโ€“US trade war intensifies after Carneyโ€™s tariff retaliation: what you need to know

Canadaโ€“US trade war intensifies after Carneyโ€™s tariff retaliation: what you need to know

C1Sep 8
Rising oil prices weigh on Wall Street

Rising oil prices weigh on Wall Street

Rising oil prices weigh on Wall Street

C1Sep 8