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South Korea's self-regulatory trade body for securities firms, publishing market data such as investor deposits and margin loans.
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Financial authorities are negotiating a formal bar on margin trading by investors under 19, after KB, Samsung and Shinhan each stopped it on their own schedules. Credit loans to buy shares rose 713 billion won in the week investor deposits fell 10.2 trillion.
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Unpaid principal at Korea's ten largest brokerages rose 5.1 times to 37.79575 billion won over seven months, a sum equal to less than a tenth of a percent of the record 38.6328 trillion won margin book behind it.
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Astra costs $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output, both up the same 2.5 times, so the only way to hold spend flat is 60 percent fewer tokens. The capability being priced is the one rated Critical.
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Technology firms' AI bond issuance is one of the named drivers behind multi-decade highs in long yields. In Korea the transmission ends in roughly 720 trillion won of self-employed debt that reprices, at 1.8 trillion won per quarter point.
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IT operating costs rose 94.7 per cent to 28.1 billion won in the first half, but turnover grew faster still, so the cost of pushing a trillion won of orders through the platform roughly halved. The orders behind the new build carry no disclosed price.
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July net purchases of U.S. equities hit $4.5 billion, with about 19% going into one ADR buyers could have bought at home and four leveraged funds in the top ten.
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Korean retail investors put about $840 million into SK Hynix's U.S. depositary receipts in July, part of $4.5 billion of net U.S. buying. The receipts have traded around 10% above the Seoul shares.
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The round trip through Direxion's Semiconductor Bull 3X reads as leveraged momentum rather than a view on chips, and one fund now absorbs most of Korea's net US equity flow.
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