{"id":330794,"date":"2026-03-10T01:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T01:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/330794\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T01:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T01:15:08","slug":"nikkei-225-kospi-hang-seng-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/330794\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikkei 225, Kospi, Hang Seng Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A currency dealer monitors exchange rates in front of a big screen showing South Korea&#8217;s benchmark stock index (C) and the Korean won\/USD exchange rate (R) in a foreign exchange dealing room at the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul on April 9, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Jung Yeon-je | Afp | Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>South Korea&#8217;s Kospi opened more than 5% higher Tuesday, leading a rebound in the region, after oil prices fell and Wall Street bounced back as U.S. President Donald Trump signaled the conflict with Iran could be nearing its end.<\/p>\n<p>The small-cap Kosdaq added over 4%.<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.AXJO\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">S&amp;P\/ASX 200<\/a> rose 1.35% in early trade.<\/p>\n<p>Japan&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.N225\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikkei 225<\/a> jumped 1.66%, while the Topix gained 1.3%.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.HSI\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hang Seng index<\/a> futures were at 25,370, compared with the index&#8217;s last close of 25,408.46.<\/p>\n<p>Stock Chart IconStock chart icon<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static-redesign.cnbcfm.com\/dist\/a54b41835a8b60db28c2.svg\" class=\"Collapsible-dismissButton\" alt=\"hide content\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Oil prices fell after Trump said he was considering seizing control of the Strait of Hormuz, the most important chokepoint in world for the crude market. Trump\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/03\/09\/trump-iran-war-end.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">also told a CBS News reporter<\/a>, who shared the comments in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/weijia\/status\/2031086856679412042?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">post on X<\/a>, that &#8220;the war is very complete, pretty much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>U.S. crude oil was down 6.49% at $88.66 per barrel at 7.28 p.m. ET Monday. The decline came after oil <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/03\/08\/crude-oil-prices-today-iran-war.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">surged past $100<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With 20% of world oil supply stopped, we have the largest interruption ever,&#8221; said Bob McNally, president of Rapidan Energy Group, in reference to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest disruption before the current war was during the Suez Crisis of 1956 when Britain, France and Israel invaded Egypt&#8217;s Sinai Peninsula, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/03\/09\/the-us-iran-war-is-the-biggest-oil-supply-disruption-in-history.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">energy consulting firm told clients in a Sunday note<\/a>. At that time, roughly 10% of global oil supply was disrupted.<\/p>\n<p>Overnight in U.S. stocks advanced. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.SPX\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">S&amp;P 500<\/a> rose 0.83% to close at 6,795.99, while the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.DJI\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a>\u00a0added 239.25 points, or 0.5%, and ended at 47,740.80. The blue-chip index is coming off its biggest weekly slide in nearly a year. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.IXIC\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nasdaq Composite<\/a>\u00a0jumped 1.38% and settled at 22,695.95. <\/p>\n<p>Those moves mark an impressive turnaround from the losses seen earlier in the day. The Dow was down nearly 900 points at its session low, and the S&amp;P 500 and Nasdaq had dropped as much as 1.5% each.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A currency dealer monitors exchange rates in front of a big screen showing South Korea&#8217;s benchmark stock index&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[158432,157457,3199,972,30271,114,357,35951,3198,30935,163062,6420,54,151645,31011,144658,30927,3449,30937,85,150425,87,46,1437,64251,30932,3197,39310,864,151323,7259,18782,11471,69279,79,1032,151247,150424,30938],"class_list":{"0":"post-330794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-lco26k","9":"tag-lco26q","10":"tag-asia-economy","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-bp-plc","13":"tag-business","14":"tag-business-news","15":"tag-chevron-corp","16":"tag-chicago","17":"tag-conocophillips","18":"tag-direxion-nasdaq-100-equal-weighted-index-shares","19":"tag-donald-j-trump","20":"tag-donald-trump","21":"tag-eog-resources-inc","22":"tag-exxon-mobil-corp","23":"tag-fidelity-nasdaq-composite-index-track","24":"tag-halliburton-co","25":"tag-hang-seng-index","26":"tag-ice-brent-crude-oct25","27":"tag-il","28":"tag-invesco-db-oil-fund","29":"tag-iran","30":"tag-israel","31":"tag-japan","32":"tag-lp","33":"tag-marathon-petroleum-corp","34":"tag-nikkei-225-index","35":"tag-occidental-petroleum-equity-warrants-exp-3rd-august-2027","36":"tag-osaka","37":"tag-proshares-ultra-bloomberg-crude-oil","38":"tag-sp-asx-200","39":"tag-shell-plc","40":"tag-south-korea","41":"tag-totalenergies-se","42":"tag-united-arab-emirates","43":"tag-united-states","44":"tag-united-states-brent-oil-fund","45":"tag-united-states-oil-fund","46":"tag-wti-crude-sep25"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}