##{"id":51944,"date":"2006-07-07T15:54:34","date_gmt":"2006-07-07T05:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fnarena.com\/index.php\/2006\/07\/07\/korean-equities-catching-up-soon\/"},"modified":"2017-01-24T04:45:49","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T17:45:49","slug":"korean-equities-catching-up-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/2006\/07\/07\/korean-equities-catching-up-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Korean Equities Catching Up Soon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Rudi Filapek-Vandyck<\/p>\n<p>UBS&#8217; investment strategy for Asia is centred around six themes: Basic Materials, Energy, Financials, Thailand, China and Korea. So far, the one that does not seem to be working is Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The broker&#8217;s Asian equity strategists believe this may well be about to change as the upcoming results season is expected to bring a halt to the continuous sliding earnings expectations for Korean companies.<\/p>\n<p>Since 31 Jan, consensus EPS forecasts for FY06 in Korea have fallen by 6.5%, the broker points out. UBS believes this explains why the Korean share market has underperformed so far this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UBS believes the underperformance of Korean equities could soon reverse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}