South Korea Financial Markets
Currency traders watch monitors near a screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), top center, and the foreign exchange rate between U.S. dollar and South Korean won, top center left, at the foreign exchange dealing room of the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026.
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Asian shares are mostly higher as Japan’s benchmark topped new highs after a historic election win for the nation’s first female prime minister. Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei 225 jumped on Tuesday, having set records the day before with a 3.9% advance after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's ruling Liberal Democrats scored a landslide victory in a parliamentary election. Shares slipped in Australia but rose in South Korea and China. U.S. stocks finished higher. The S&P 500, rising 0.5%, pulled closer to its all-time high set two weeks ago. The Dow Jones Industrial Average edged up by less than 0.1%. The Nasdaq gained 0.9%.
