
South Korean Regulators Face Backlash as Margin Debt Hits 33.7 Trillion Won
Retail margin loans reached a three-month high of 33.7 trillion won as Seoul authorities convened emergency talks without announcing fresh market interventions.
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Retail margin loans reached a three-month high of 33.7 trillion won as Seoul authorities convened emergency talks without announcing fresh market interventions.

Individual traders generated over 90 percent of turnover in Seoul’s new evening market as thin liquidity drove wild swings in small-cap stocks.

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix led early advances before institutional and retail profit-taking trimmed benchmark gains ahead of the two-day Chuseok market closure.

Foreign funds offloaded 3.69 trillion won in Seoul shares as Samsung’s delayed payout timetable triggered an 8.70 per cent stock slide.

Troubled pizza company MP Group may soon be delisted from the Kosdaq after nine years on the exchange. Korea Exchange announced Monday that a committee on corporate evaluation agreed to delist the company, which operates pizza franchise Mr. Pizza, from the…
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