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Asian shares mostly fall, with South Koreaโ€™s Kospi down 6.6%, while oil prices drop

Asian shares mostly fall, with South Koreaโ€™s Kospi down 6.6%, while oil prices drop

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July 16th, 2026

Asian shares mostly fall, with South Koreaโ€™s Kospi down 6.6%, while oil prices drop

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Asian shares mostly fell on Thursday.

๋ชฉ์š”์ผ ์•„์‹œ์•„ ์ฃผ์‹์€ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ํ•˜๋ฝํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

South Koreaโ€™s Kospi dropped 6.6%.

ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ์ฝ”์Šคํ”ผ๋Š” 6.6% ํ•˜๋ฝํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The Bank of Korea raised interest rates for the first time since 2023.

ํ•œ๊ตญ์€ํ–‰์€ 2023๋…„ ์ดํ›„ ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ธ์ƒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

It did this to control inflation linked to the Iran war.

์ด๋Š” ์ด๋ž€ ์ „์Ÿ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์„ ํ†ต์ œํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์กฐ์น˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Memory chipmaker SK Hynix fell 11.2%.

๋ฉ”๋ชจ๋ฆฌ ๋ฐ˜๋„์ฒด ์—…์ฒด SKํ•˜์ด๋‹‰์Šค๋Š” 11.2% ํ•˜๋ฝํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Samsung Electronics dropped 8.2%.

์‚ผ์„ฑ์ „์ž๋Š” 8.2% ํ•˜๋ฝํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Tokyoโ€™s Nikkei 225 fell 2.9%.

๋„์ฟ„์˜ ๋‹›์ผ€์ด 225๋Š” 2.9% ํ•˜๋ฝํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Japanese chipmaker Kioxia plunged 13.5%.

์ผ๋ณธ ๋ฐ˜๋„์ฒด ์—…์ฒด ํ‚ค์˜ฅ์‹œ์•„๋Š” 13.5% ๊ธ‰๋ฝํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Tokyo Electron lost 5.2%.

๋„์ฟ„์ผ๋ ‰ํŠธ๋ก ์€ 5.2% ํ•˜๋ฝํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Hong Kongโ€™s Hang Seng gained 1.7%.

ํ™์ฝฉ์˜ ํ•ญ์… ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” 1.7% ์ƒ์Šนํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Alibaba shares rose 4.4% after China approved Apple Intelligence for use.

์ค‘๊ตญ์ด Apple Intelligence ์‚ฌ์šฉ์„ ์Šน์ธํ•œ ํ›„ ์•Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฐ”๋ฐ” ์ฃผ์‹์€ 4.4% ์˜ฌ๋ž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The Shanghai Composite fell 0.9%.

์ƒํ•˜์ด ์ข…ํ•ฉ์ง€์ˆ˜๋Š” 0.9% ํ•˜๋ฝํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Oil prices slipped but stayed elevated.

์œ ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ์†Œํญ ํ•˜๋ฝํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ๋†’์€ ์ˆ˜์ค€์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Brent crude dropped 0.4% to $84.55 a barrel.

๋ธŒ๋ ŒํŠธ์œ ๋Š” 0.4% ํ•˜๋ฝํ•ด ๋ฐฐ๋Ÿด๋‹น 84.55๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

That is up from about $72 in late February.

์ด๋Š” 2์›” ๋ง ์•ฝ 72๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์—์„œ ์ƒ์Šนํ•œ ์ˆ˜์น˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ING strategists said oil gained for a third day.

ING ์ „๋žต๊ฐ€๋“ค์€ ์œ ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ 3์ผ ์—ฐ์† ์ƒ์Šนํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

They noted no signs of U.S.-Iran de-escalation.

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์ด๋ž€ ๊ฐ„ ๊ธด์žฅ ์™„ํ™” ์กฐ์ง์ด ์—†๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ง€์ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

They said rising tensions are affecting vessel flows from the Persian Gulf.

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๊ณ ์กฐ๋˜๋Š” ๊ธด์žฅ์ด ํŽ˜๋ฅด์‹œ์•„๋งŒ์—์„œ ์˜ค๋Š” ์„ ๋ฐ• ํ๋ฆ„์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

U.S. futures edged higher.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์„ ๋ฌผ์ด ์†Œํญ ์˜ฌ๋ž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

On Wednesday, the S&P 500 rose 0.4%.

์ˆ˜์š”์ผ S&P 500์€ 0.4% ์˜ฌ๋ž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

BlackRock shares gained 6.6% after strong quarterly results.

๋ธ”๋ž™๋ก ์ฃผ์‹์€ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์ด ์ข‹์€ ํ›„ 6.6% ์˜ฌ๋ž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The dollar fell to 162.09 yen.

๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋Š” 162.09์—”์œผ๋กœ ๋‚ด๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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