South Korea Extends Trading Hours to Attract Foreign Capital
Seoul's exchange will add 90 minutes to its daily session from November, aligning more closely with Tokyo and Hong Kong in a bid to boost liquidity and overseas participation.
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Seoul's exchange will add 90 minutes to its daily session from November, aligning more closely with Tokyo and Hong Kong in a bid to boost liquidity and overseas participation.

Jakarta's bourse trials a 98% reduction in minimum stock prices with members, seeking liquidity improvements before implementation

December reform aligns retail-friendly trading windows with standard block sessions, part of broader push to boost market accessibility

HKEX's plan to scrap its lunch break raises questions about whether SGX should follow suit to maintain regional competitiveness

HKEX prepares discussion paper on longer trading days and potential lunch break removal, marking first opening-time shift since 2012

Asset managers push back on timeline, citing gaps in liquidity infrastructure that could cause funds to trade far from net asset value

Tokyo Stock Exchange to remove companies in bottom 3% by free-float market cap over two-year period starting October

Industry body mandates staggered trades throughout the day to reduce closing-hour pressure on Samsung and SK Hynix shares

HKEX proposes continuous trading from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., but SGX abandoned a similar model in 2017 after six years of thin midday volumes