
The South Korean won strengthened slightly against the US dollar on August 18, reaching its highest level since October 2, 2023, due to reduced expectations of a September Federal Reserve rate hike following softer-than-expected US inflation data.
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The Federal Reserve's monetary policy decisions significantly influence global currency markets, including the South Korean won.
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Yonhap) -- The South Korean won rose slightly against the U.S. dollar Tuesday due to subdued expectations of a rate hike by the Federal Reserve after better-than-expected U.S. economic data. The won was quoted at 1,411.8 won per dollar at 3:30 p.m., up 1.2 won from the close of the previous stock trading day. It marked the strongest level since Oct. 2 last year. The won opened at 1,417 won per dollar and rose to as high as 1,408 won in afternoon trading. The won has held firm as the dollar remained weak in the wake of soft U.S. inflation data that reduced the chances of the Federal Reserve adjusting rates in September. Foreigners bought a net 91.4 billion won (US$64.8 million) worth of local stocks during the latest trading session, with the benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index falling 1.55 percent to close at 6,869.83.
AI outlook โ possibilities, not facts
The South Korean won may continue to strengthen if US economic data remains subdued.
Likely ยท Within weeks

ํ๊ตญ ์ ๋ฐ ์ต์ด๋ก ์ปจํ ์ด๋์ 'ํฌ์คํ ์ํฌ๋กํธ'๊ฐ ๋ถ๊ทนํญ๋ก ์๋ฒ ์ดํญ์ ์ํด ๋ถ์ฐ์์ ์ถํญํ๋ค. ์ด๋ฒ ์ดํญ์ ๋ถ์ฐ๊ณผ ์ ๋ฝ์ ์๋ ์ต๋จ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ํญ๋ก ๊ฐ์ฒ์ ๋ชฉํ๋ก ํ๋ฉฐ, ์ฝ 45์ผ๊ฐ ์ด 6,400km์ ๋ถ๊ทนํด ๊ตฌ๊ฐ์ ํต๊ณผํ ์์ ์ด๋ค.

South Korea and Japan held a vice finance ministerial meeting in Tokyo on Friday to discuss global financial trends, bilateral cooperation, and multilateral platforms like ASEAN+3 and G20.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์บ๋๋ค์ ๋ฌด์ญ ํ์์ด ์ต์ข ๊ฒฐ๋ ฌ๋๋ฉด์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ด 22์ผ๋ถ๋ก ์ฝ 200์ต๋ฌ๋ฌ ์๋น์ ์บ๋๋ค์ฐ ์์ ํ์ 50% ๊ด์ธ๋ฅผ ๋ถ๊ณผํ๊ธฐ๋ก ํ๋ค. ์ด์ ์บ๋๋ค๋ ๋์ผํ ๊ท๋ชจ์ ๋ณด๋ณต ๊ด์ธ๋ฅผ ์๊ณ ํ๋ฉฐ ์๊ตญ ๊ด๊ณ๊ฐ ๊ธ๊ฒฉํ ๋๊ฐ๋๊ณ ์๋ค.

Samsung SDI plans to sell a 33% stake in Samsung Display for 4.45 trillion won ($3.21 billion) to finance overseas battery production facilities, specifically targeting its Synergy Cells plant in Indiana, U.S.

The South Korean government has extended its fuel price ceilings for gasoline, diesel, and kerosene for another four weeks. The decision follows rising Brent crude prices, which reached $90 per barrel due to ongoing instability in the Middle East.

์ํ ์ฝ์ธ๊ฐ ์ง์๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ๋ ์ ๋ง์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ์ผ๋ณธ ๋ด ๊ฐ์ธ๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ์ธํ ์๊ธ ์๊ณ ๊ฐ 2๋ถ๊ธฐ ๊ธฐ์ค 26์กฐ 1์ฒ์ต ์์ผ๋ก ์ ๋ ๋๊ธฐ ๋๋น 18% ๊ธ์ฆํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ 1998๋ ์ดํ ์ต๋ ์ฆ๊ฐ ํญ์ผ๋ก, ๊ฐ์ธ์ ์ธํ ์์ฐ ์ ํ ์์ง์์ด ๋๋๋ฌ์ง๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.