[뉴스새벽배송]The first opening date of the stock market in 2021… Anxiety such as corona is’still’

[이데일리 권효중 기자] The stock market, which had written side by side, such as the KOSPI index, which broke the 2800 line for the first time in 2020, and the KOSDAQ index, which reached the highest level at 960 in 20 years, will start trading for the first time in 2021. However, after last year, the re-proliferation of Corona 19 is still acting as an unsettling factor, and from the beginning of the new year, global uncertainties are also emerging, such as the US is pushing to delist China’s three major mobile carriers on the New York Stock Exchange. The following are some of the major news worth noting on this day.

New Year’s celebration is taking place on the 1st (local time) in Times Square in Manhattan, New York, USA. This year, public access has been blocked to prevent the spread of Corona 19. (Photo = Reuters, Yonhap News)

First trading day of the stock market in 2021… Expectations for’January Effect’↑

-The first stock market of the new year in 2021 on January 4th opens at 10:00 a.m., and the Korea Exchange opens the ‘2021 Securities and Derivatives Opening Ceremony’ at 9:40 a.m. on the same day and starts trading on the stock market at 10:00. Same as 3:30pm. From the 5th, the transaction will be held from 9 am to 3:30 pm.

-On December 30, the last trading day of last year, the KOSPI index recorded an all-time high of 2873.47, and the KOSDAQ also reached a record high of 968.42, a record high of last year and a record in 20 years.

-As it set a record of’unprecedented’ last year, expectations for the’January effect’ were raised, Lee Eun-taek, a researcher at KB Securities, said, “There are still issues that will raise expectations in the stock market such as strong corporate performance in the fourth quarter of last year and the launch of the US Biden government.” He also predicted that “the surge in the stock market is burdensome, but the’bull market’ will not end.”

China’s Top 3 News Service Providers,’Currency’ in the US New York Stock Exchange

-The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) announced in a statement on the evening of December 31 last year (local time) that it will suspend stock trading of China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom, the three major mobile carriers in China between January 7 and 11. Revealed.

-This was followed by an executive order in November of last year that the Donald Trump administration banned Americans from investing in companies affiliated with the Chinese military.

-Previously, the U.S. Department of Defense listed 35 companies, including these three mobile carriers, on the list of “prohibiting US investment in stocks,” which also includes Chinese oil companies such as China Ocean Petroleum and PetroChina, which also delisted them. There are also some observations that it will happen.

US corona death surpasses 350,000… Continue re-proliferation

-According to Johns Hopkins University in the United States, the cumulative death toll of Corona 19 in the United States on the 3rd (local time) was 35,775, exceeding 350,000. This is an additional 50,000 deaths in 20 days after recording 300,000 cumulative deaths in December of last year.

-It is analyzed that this was accelerated by the 3rd pandemic in the winter season and family gatherings and trips during the holiday season such as Christmas and New Year overlapping.

Nancy Pelosi succeeds in re-election of US House of Representatives

-Democratic Party member Nancy Pelosi was re-elected as chairman of the House of Representatives in the newly elected 117th US Congress on the 3rd (local time).

Pelosi won 216 votes and succeeded in overtaking Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, who won 209. This is also Pelosi’s fourth term as Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Bitcoin running in the new year hits an all-time high

-Bitcoin, a cryptocurrency that has soared rapidly amid the COVID-19 phase, posted a record high of 33,000 dollars (about 35.8 million KRW) on the 2nd (local time).

-Bitcoin has surged almost three times in the past year alone on the back of a weak stock market and a weak US dollar in the early period of Corona 19, and continues to rise this year.

-The US CNN broadcast said, “Bitcoin’s popularity will continue while the central bank, such as the Federal Reserve System, is expected to keep interest rates at almost’zero’ levels in the future.”