Seoul: Stocks firm on US stimulus deal hopes; won closes at 5-month high

The won ended trading at 1,188.8 per US dollar on the onshore settlement platform, 0.45 per cent higher than its previous close at 1,194.1.

In offshore trading, the won was quoted at 1,188.8 per US dollar, up 0.4 per cen from the previous day, while in non-deliverable forward trading its one-month contract was quoted at 1,188.6.The trading volume during the session in the Kospi index was 830.19 million shares. Of the total traded issues of 902, the number of advancing shares was 400.The most liquid three-year Korean treasury bond yield fell by 1.1 basis points to 0.

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