Seoul Shares Up 0.5 pct, Shipyards Gain
According to a Sept 15 report from Reuters, Seoul shares edged up on Wednesday helped by firm gains in shipbuilders such as Hyundai Heavy Industries Co Ltd (009540.KS), but falls in retailers and banks such as Shinhan Financial Group Co Ltd (055550.KS) weighed. The Korea Composite Stock Price Index .KS11 (KOSPI) ended up 0.48 percent at 1,823.88 points. Kim Seong-bong, a market analyst at Samsung Securities told Reuters that the company is seeing a lot of equity redemption by fundholders at the index's current level, and this will pressure the market for some time. (Source: Reuters)
Report: KDB Sees Daewoo Sale
Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering is expected to go up for sale in the second half of this year, once the firm swings to a solid operating profit in the first half, its main creditor said on Thursday. The long-awaited sale has been widely expected to be one of the country's top acquisition deals in 2007, after the state-run Korea Development Bank (KDB) sold LG Card Co. Ltd. to Shinhan Financial Group for $7.2 billion last year. KDB and state restructuring agency KAMCO jointly own half of the world's No. 2 shipbuilder, valued at 2.5 trillion won ($2.67 billion) at the current market price, after its parent, Daewoo Group, went bankrupt under a mountain of debt in 1999. As for Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
