South Korean retail cash, margin debt drop by $17.5 bn in a month as Kospi tumbles

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South Korean retail investors are pulling cash from the stock market and unwinding leveraged bets at a rapid pace as a fourth-quarter pullback in semiconductor ...

The Kospi is shown in the dealing room at the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, after the index plummeted by more than 6% to close just barely above the 5,000-point mark South Korea’s stock market suffered another sharp sell-off on Friday, with the Kospi plunging more than 6% to finish jus

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