People walk inside the Korea Exchange (KRX) building, as stock markets in Asia as a whole have been affected by the intensifying political turmoil over president Yoon Suk Yeol’s role in martial law, in Seoul, South Korea, on Dec. 9, 2024.

World stocks are mixed follow Wall Street’s mostly positive performance ahead of key U.S. inflation data that could influence the pace of the Federal Reserve’s rate cuts.

Global stock markets were mixed on Thursday as Wall Street remained closed to honor the late former President Jimmy Carter. The U.S. stock market was closed Thursday in observance of a National Day of Mourning for Carter who died at the age of 100 late last month.

This is CNBC's live blog covering Asia-Pacific markets. Asia-Pacific markets opened mixed Tuesday after a mixed session on Wall Street that saw the Dow soar and the Nasdaq slip as investors rotated out of tech stocks.

South Korean stocks opened higher Wednesday, despite Wall Street losses, on gains of tech and pharmaceuticals. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index added 10.71 points, or 0.43 percent ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted videos Sunday of two North Korean soldiers captured while fighting in Russia's Kursk region. They are "the first captured soldiers from North Korea," but "there will undoubtedly be more," Zelenskyy said on X. He offered to exchange the North Korean prisoners for Ukrainian troops held in Russia.

Asian shares are mostly higher, deriving optimism from rising technology stocks on Wall Street, led by Nvidia. Benchmarks rose in early Tuesday trading in Japan, South Korea and Australia, while

People walk inside the Korea Exchange (KRX) building, as stock markets in Asia as a whole have been affected by the intensifying political turmoil over president Yoon Suk Yeol’s role in martial law, in Seoul, South Korea, on Dec. 9, 2024.

Investors in Asia await the Bank of Korea's rate decision later in the day, with economists polled by Reuters expecting the BOK to cut its policy rate by 25 basis points. Japan's benchmark Nikkei ...

This is CNBC's live blog covering Asia-Pacific markets. Asia-Pacific markets were set to mostly climb Thursday, after U.S. markets soared on the back of an unexpected decline in core inflation ...

Law enforcement authorities have requested a warrant to formally arrest impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, who is spending his third day at a detention center after his lawyers failed in a last-minute attempt to secure his release.

Han Youngsoo chronicled the postwar transformation of mid-century Seoul, complicating popular depictions of that era as one solely of deprivation and hardship.