Market Brief
Asia Sells Off: KOSPI Triggers Circuit Breaker Twice, Shanghai Loses 4,000
Asian equities suffered their sharpest one-day drawdown of 2026 on June 8. KOSPI -8.29% (two intraday circuit breakers). Nikkei -3.85% (-2,500 points). Shanghai Composite -1%, breaking below 4,000 for the first time since the rally began. The trigger: Israeli airstrike on an Iranian petrochemical complex,