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Korean brokerage where a PB Center general manager was paid 4.31 billion won and CEO Kim Sung-hwan 4.59 billion won, the highest among current domestic brokerage CEOs.
No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.
The won closed at 1,397.7 on the 19th, down 14.1 in a session, even as the U.S. 30-year yield hit its highest since 2007. Exporter flow, not rate differentials, set the price.
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Japan, the UK and the US are all paying more to borrow. Korea's revenue upgrade rests on a semiconductor cycle, while mandatory spending is set to grow 5.9% a year regardless.
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Individual investors on the KRX Gold Market turned net buyers for the first time since May, but only after bullion futures had already added 9%. The flow is a read on Fed expectations, arriving late.
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Korean brokerages have tied retail pay so tightly to individual sales results that a trading boom now pays front-line contract staff many times what the people running the firms take home.
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