* KOSPI index slumps 1.6 pct, foreigners sell
* Korean won weakens versus U.S. dollar
* South Korean bond yields down
SEOUL, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Round-up of South Korean financial
markets:
** South Korea's KOSPI stock index slumped on Tuesday,
as worries over iPhone sales hit several suppliers of Apple Inc
. The Korean won slipped versus the U.S. dollar and bond
yields fell as well.
** At 02:25 GMT, the KOSPI was down 32.93 points or 1.58 percent
at 2,047.51.
** Apple shares fell on Monday amid sharp declines in shares of
its suppliers such as Lumentum Holdings Inc , and
chipmakers that sell to Apple such as Cirrus Logic Inc .
** South Korean companies that sell to Apple, such as Samsung
Electronics and SK Hynix dropped 2.7
percent and 4.8 percent, respectively, while LG Innotek
plunged 8.9 percent.
** The won was quoted at 1,137.8 per dollar on the onshore
settlement platform , 0.34 percent weaker than its
previous close at 1,133.9.
** In offshore trading, the won was quoted at 1,138.79
per U.S. dollar, down 0.04 percent from the previous day, while
in one-year non-deliverable forwards it was being
transacted at 1,118.65 per dollar.
** MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan
was down 1.65 percent, after U.S. stocks ended
the previous session with mild losses . Japanese
stocks weakened 3.11 percent.
** The KOSPI is down around 15.7 percent so far this year, and
down by 11.67 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 150,140,000 shares and, of the total traded issues
of 890, the number of advancing shares was 87.
** Foreigners were net sellers of 91,640 million won worth of
shares.
** The U.S. dollar has risen 6.79 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, December futures on three-year
treasury bonds rose 0.06 points to 108.81.
** The Korean 3-month Certificate of Deposit benchmark rate was
quoted at 1.7 percent, while the benchmark 3-year Korean
treasury bond yielded 1.935 percent, lower than the previous
day's 1.94 percent.
(Reporting by Hayoung Choi; Editing by Amrutha Gayathri)
