중국경기둔화로 코스피 장중 2,100선 붕괴, 아시아 주가 동반 급락<br /><br />Asian shares slumped today.<br />There's been a cocktail of negative drivers.<br />From Saudi Arabia's diplomatic isolation, to fresh worries of a slowdown of the Chinese economy and intensifying trade wars.<br />Kim Ji-yeon help us look beyond the digits. <br /> Korea's benchmark KOSPI fell 2-point-6-percent from the previous trading day, closing near the psychologically significant 2-thousand-100 level on Tuesday.<br />During mid-day trading it dipped below this level for the first time since March last year.<br />Foreign investors sold 344-point-3-million U.S. dollars worth of shares from the KOSPI... while institutions sold 259-million dollars of shares. <br />Shares related to medical supplies, machinery and retail sectors fell the most.<br />In particular, the share price of Korea's biopharma company Celltrion fell by more than eight-percent... mainly due to the impact of a multi-million dollar block deal by Singapore's sovereign wealth fund Temasek Holdings.<br /> Korea's secondary bourse KOSDAQ also dropped by 3-point-4-percent closing at the 719-level.<br />Largely due to worries of a slowdown of the Chinese economy, which released lower-than-expected Q3 growth rate of 6-point-5-percent last week,... the Hang Seng index in Hong Kong declined by more than <br />3-percent... and the Shanghai Stock Exchange fell by 2-point-3 percent.<br />Japan's Nikkei index dipped by nearly 2-point-7-percent... while the TOPIX fell 2-point-6-percent.<br />The MSCI broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan also skidded by more than 2-percent.<br />Kim Ji-yeon, Arirang News. <br />
