* KOSPI index drops, foreigners sell
* Korean won weakens versus U.S. dollar
* South Korean bond yields climb
SEOUL, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Round-up of South Korean financial
markets:
** South Korea's KOSPI stock index slipped on Thursday
as the U.S. Federal Reserve stuck to its outlook for continued
policy tightening next year, suppressing hopes that the Fed will
adopt a dovish stance in the face of softening global growth.
The Korean won fell while bond yields rose.
** At 02:17 GMT, the KOSPI was down 12.14 points or 0.58 percent
at 2,066.70, trimming deeper losses earlier in the session.
** South Korea's electric and electronic sub-index
dropped on worries of weak smartphone demand. SK Hynix
fell more than 3 pct to a one-and-a-half-year low,
while LG Innotek slid more than 4 percent to the
lowest in nearly two years.
** U.S. chipmaker Micron Technology Inc has joined its
South Korean rivals Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and
SK Hynix in warning about a market glut of memory chips as
consumer and business demand for phones and computers is
weakening.
** The won was quoted at 1,128.8 per dollar on the onshore
settlement platform , 0.47 percent weaker than its
previous close at 1,123.5.
** In offshore trading, the won was quoted at 1,127.6 per
U.S. dollar, up 0.1 percent from the previous day, while in
one-year non-deliverable forwards it was being
transacted at 1,108.85 per dollar.
** MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan
was down 0.62 percent, after U.S. stocks ended
the previous session with losses . Japanese stocks
weakened 0.94 percent.
** The KOSPI is down around 15.8 percent so far this year, and
down by 0.01 percent in the previous 30 days.
** The current price-to-earnings ratio is 12.10, the dividend
yield is 1.28 percent and the market capitalisation is 1,242.04
trillion won.
** The trading volume during the session on the KOSPI index
was 167,211,000 shares and, of the total traded issues
of 882, the number of advancing shares was 356.
** Foreigners were net sellers of 58,098 million won worth of
shares.
** The U.S. dollar has risen 5.74 percent against the won this
year. The won's high for the year is 1,053.55 per dollar on
April 2 2018 and low is 1,146.26 on October 11 2018.
** In money and debt markets, March futures on three-year
treasury bonds fell 0.08 points to 109.31.
** The Korean 3-month Certificate of Deposit benchmark rate was
quoted at 1.9 percent, while the benchmark 3-year Korean
treasury bond yielded 1.81 percent, higher than the previous
day's 1.79 percent.
(Reporting by Hayoung Choi; Editing by Amrutha Gayathri)
