SEOUL: Round-up of South Korean financial markets: South Korea's KOSPI stock index weakened on Tuesday, while the won became stronger against the greenback in the local platform and bond yields rose.
At 06:32 GMT, the KOSPI was down 3.72 points or 0.15 percent at 2,453.77.
The won was quoted at 1,067 per dollar on the onshore settlement platform, 0.66 percent firmer than its previous close at 1,074. The currency extended gains, erasing losses from Monday.
In offshore trading, the won was quoted at 1,066.12 per US dollar, up 0.33 percent from the previous day, while in one-year non-deliverable forwards it was being transacted at 1,050.1 per dollar.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was down 0.25 percent, while US stocks ended the previous session with mild gains. Japanese stocks rose 0.06 percent.
The KOSPI is down around 0.4 percent so far this year, and has fallen 3.47 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 was 389,176,000 shares, and of the total traded issues of 885, the number of advancing shares was 436.
Foreigners were net sellers of 274,675 million won worth of shares.
The U.S dollar has fallen 0.03 percent against the won this year. The won's high for the year is 1,053.55 per dollar on April 2 and low is 1,098.4 on Feb. 6.
In money and debt markets, June futures on three-year treasury bonds fell 0.02 points to 107.84.
The Korean 3-month Certificate of Deposit benchmark rate was quoted at 1.65 percent, while the benchmark 3-year Korean treasury bond yielded 2.181 percent, higher than the previous day's 2.17 percent.
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