{"id":222239,"date":"2026-05-29T03:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/seoul-shares-close-at-new-high-on-tech-rally-mideast-optimism\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T04:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T08:15:14","slug":"seoul-shares-close-at-new-high-on-tech-rally-mideast-optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/seoul-shares-close-at-new-high-on-tech-rally-mideast-optimism\/","title":{"rendered":"Seoul shares close at new high on tech rally, Mideast optimism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/World-News\/2026\/05\/29\/korea-KOSPI-Korea-Stock-Index-new-high-AI-optimism-Middle-East\/7591780040911\/\">Seoul shares close at new high on tech rally, Mideast optimism<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/World-News\/2026\/05\/29\/korea-KOSPI-Korea-Stock-Index-new-high-AI-optimism-Middle-East\/7591780040911\/\">https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/World-News\/2026\/05\/29\/korea-KOSPI-Korea-Stock-Index-new-high-AI-optimism-Middle-East\/7591780040911\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-29 03:55:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.upi.com\">www.upi.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>South Korean stocks reached a new all-time high driven by strong gains in AI-related stocks.<\/li>\n<li>The Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) surged 3.55% to close at 8,476.15 points.<\/li>\n<li>Trade volume was heavy, with AI companies experiencing significant gains.<\/li>\n<li>Renewed optimism about a Middle East peace deal extended US-Iran ceasefire boosted market optimism.<\/li>\n<li>Analysts attributed the rally partly to Nvidia Corp.&#8217;s CEO Jensen Huang&#8217;s upcoming visit to South Korea.<\/li>\n<li>Key companies like Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, and Naver saw significant increases in stock prices.<\/li>\n<li>Despite overall gains, certain sectors like banking and food industries saw modest declines.<\/li>\n<li>The Korean won weakened against the US dollar, and bond prices rose.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul shares close at new high on tech rally, Mideast optimism https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/World-News\/2026\/05\/29\/korea-KOSPI-Korea-Stock-Index-new-high-AI-optimism-Middle-East\/7591780040911\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-29&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdnph.upi.com\/sv\/ph\/og\/i\/7591780040911\/2026\/1\/17800411132529\/v1.5\/Seoul-shares-close-at-new-high-on-tech-rally-Mideast-optimism.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222241,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222239\/revisions\/222241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}