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Moving on to corporate earnings reports. Hyundai Motor disappointed by falling slightly under market expections. But the real shocker was Samsung Engineering′s digits， as its operating profit and net loss turned to the red. Kim Min－ji has the details. Report cards for the third quarter are out... and they don′t seem rosy. Korea′s top automaker Hyundai Motor saw its operating profit fall to a five－year low in the July to September period. The automobile giant reported an operating income of one－point－three billion U.S. dollars，... falling almost nine percent year on year and slightly below market expectations. Its net profit dipped more than 25 percent. The company attributed the losses to the weakness of currencies in emerging markets and the euro，... which cancelled out the rise in the value of the Korean won against the U.S. dollar. It also cited increased sales costs amid competition from foreign rivals. ″The losses come due to fluctuations in foreign exchange rates. But things will get better in the fourth quarter on the back of new releases. Conditions in emerging markets haven′t been on the good side，... but we doubt it will worsen. Also， we expect auto sales in China to improve.″ Staying on the earnings front，... things were even bitter in the construction sector. Samsung Engineering posted an operating loss of one－point－three billion U.S. dollars in the third quarter. Sales tumbled more than 60 percent，... and it recorded a net loss of one－point－one billion dollars. The company cited delays on projects in the Middle East as one of the main reasons for the losses. Kim Min－ji， Arirang News.