Shares opened weaker Thursday as investors took profit following strong gains in the previous session despite an overnight rally on Wall Street.

Netflix shot up 14.6% after it reported adding nearly 19 million subscribers during the holiday-season quarter and it topped sales and profit targets. The video streaming service’s expansion into live programming appears to be paying off as it wrapped up its best year ever with more than $40 billion in revenue.

Fortunately, I bumped into the shop's owner, Sang Kim. Originally from Seoul, Kim has been living out here the past 20 years: Here meaning both sides of the border, Tijuana and Chula Vista. He's a mechanical engineer by trade, who emigrated to work for companies including LG and Hyundai.

Global stock markets were mixed on Thursday as Wall Street remained closed to honor the late former President Jimmy Carter. The U.S. stock market was closed Thursday in observance of a National Day of Mourning for Carter who died at the age of 100 late last month.

U.S. stock indexes rallied to close out their best week in two months. The S&P 500 rose 1% Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 0.8%, and the Nasdaq composite gained 1.5%.

People walk inside the Korea Exchange (KRX) building, as stock markets in Asia as a whole have been affected by the intensifying political turmoil over president Yoon Suk Yeol’s role in martial law, in Seoul, South Korea, on Dec. 9, 2024.

MOST Asian markets rose on Monday following a rally on Wall Street and record-breaking day in Europe, with sentiment boosted by positive talks between Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping that soothed worries about the incoming US leader’s second term.

World stocks are mixed follow Wall Street’s mostly positive performance ahead of key U.S. inflation data that could influence the pace of the Federal Reserve’s rate cuts.

As Donald Trump kicks off his second term in office Monday, Seoul is paying close attention to how U.S.-China strategic competition — a key variable in setting the coordinates for Korean diplomacy — will unfold.

Kwanwoo Jun is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal’s real-time news team ... Before moving to Singapore, Kwanwoo was a Seoul-based WSJ reporter. Previously, he worked as a staff reporter ...

SLB helped lead the market after the provider oilfield services delivered bigger profit and revenues for the end of 2024 than analysts expected. It jumped 6.1% after it also raised its dividend by 3.6% and said it’s returning $2.3 billion to its investors by buying back its own stock.

As South Korean authorities extended President Yoon Suk Yeol's detention, his supporters stormed the courthouse that issued the warrant, smashing windows with police shields.