{"id":54,"date":"2026-07-13T09:10:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T09:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/?p=54"},"modified":"2026-07-13T09:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T09:10:18","slug":"asia-markets-tumble-as-kospi-leads-declines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Asia Markets Tumble as Kospi Leads Declines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asia-Pacific markets sold off sharply this week, with South Korea&#8217;s benchmark index bearing the brunt of the pressure as regional risk appetite soured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kospi Drops More Than 5%<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">South Korea&#8217;s Kospi closed 5.35% lower, prompting the Korea Exchange to briefly halt sell-side program trading through a &#8220;sidecar&#8221; mechanism designed to curb excessive volatility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Japan Also Under Pressure<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Japan&#8217;s Nikkei 225 fell 2.11%, while the broader Topix index declined 1.37%, as the selloff spread across the region&#8217;s major equity benchmarks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mixed Picture Elsewhere<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australia&#8217;s S&amp;P\/ASX 200 slipped modestly, while mainland China&#8217;s CSI 300 also edged lower. Hong Kong&#8217;s Hang Seng Index was a notable exception, closing higher even as neighboring markets struggled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Drove the Selloff<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The declines came against a backdrop of renewed Middle East tensions and rising oil prices, which weighed on risk sentiment across export-driven Asian economies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asia-Pacific markets sold off sharply this week, with South Korea&#8217;s benchmark index bearing the brunt of the pressure as regional risk appetite soured. Kospi Drops More Than 5% South Korea&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}