South Korea Halts KOSPI Trading After 8.4% Crash Trips Circuit Breaker
South Korea’s KOSPI index plunged 8.4% on Monday, triggering a rare circuit breaker that froze trading for 20 minutes as a global semiconductor selloff battered Asian markets and rattled risk assets, including crypto. A...
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