Now to the markets,.... Wall Street was mixed on Monday,... as benchmark ten-year Treasury notes were close to three-percent for the first time in more than four years,... and as market watchers prepare for the heart of the U.S. corporate earnings report season.
The Dow Jones edged down 14-points to 22,448 while the S&P 500 closed virtually unchanged at 2,670.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq declined a quarter of a percent at 7,128.
Shares in Korea dropped on the first session of the diplomacy-heavy week,... as investor sentiment weakened a bit over worries about a U.S. interest rate hike.
The benchmark KOSPI was down two-points,... or less than one-tenth-of-a-percent at 2,474 while junior bourse KOSDAQ also lost a little over one-percent to 879.
