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Korea Exchange extends trading hours to attract global investors
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KRX launches an evening session in a bid to compete with US exchanges and eventually run a 24-hour market by 2027.
Key facts
- The Korea Exchange, known as KRX, announced on September 9 that it will launch a continuous after-market trading session starting September 14, running from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m
- That four-hour window replaces a clunkier system that ran auction-style trades in 10-minute intervals between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m
- KRX launches an evening session in a bid to compete with US exchanges and eventually run a 24-hour market by 2027
- The 95.2% brokerage coverage figure suggests KRX has done the work to ensure the infrastructure is in place
Summary
South Korea’s main stock exchange is doing something its Asian peers have largely avoided: staying open after dinner. That four-hour window replaces a clunkier system that ran auction-style trades in 10-minute intervals between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. KRX is covering listed stocks and depositary receipts on both its KOSPI and KOSDAQ boards. Price movement caps are set at 30%, and the exchange will use time-based volatility interruptions to cool things down if trading gets disorderly. The extended hours are partly about domestic convenience.