{"id":481576,"date":"2026-06-08T01:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T01:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/481576\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T01:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T01:42:11","slug":"south-korea-and-japan-stocks-plunge-on-us-rate-hike-fears-mideast-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/481576\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea and Japan stocks plunge on US rate hike fears, Mideast tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/markets\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Markets<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">KOSPI falls 8% in early trade, triggering circuit breakers; Nikkei average down 4%<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/0\/2.jpeg\" alt=\"20260608 Nikkei\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">A screen in Tokyo shows\u00a0the figures for the Nikkei Stock Average on the morning of June\u00a08. (Photo by Hikaru Yagi)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; South Korean and Japanese stocks fell sharply on Monday morning, led by tech stocks, as market expectations grow for a U.S. interest rate hike, while tensions flare up in the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Markets KOSPI falls 8% in early trade, triggering circuit breakers; Nikkei average down 4% A screen in Tokyo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[114,98732,23602,85,46,1437,19163,117779,118046,38857,4153,5268,130307,208],"class_list":["post-481576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-fears","tag-hike","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-japan","tag-korea","tag-mideast","tag-plunge","tag-rate","tag-south","tag-stocks","tag-tensions","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481576","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=481576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}