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Seoul shares slip; Samsung Elec up on forecast

Sun Jul 5, 2009 8:07pm EDT

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SEOUL, July 6 (Reuters) - Seoul shares opened slightly lower on Monday, but Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) rose after its quarterly earnings forecasts, while news of additional North Korean missile launches had limited market impact.

The Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) was down 0.25 percent at 1,416.54 points as of 0003 GMT.

(Reporting by Jungyoun Park; Editing by Jonathan Hopfner)



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