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Korean brokerage whose contract-based retail sales staff swept the top of its first-half pay rankings, led by Lee Jong-seok at 22.72 billion won.
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SK hynix accounted for 12 trillion won of the 20.3 trillion won that foreign investors sold net on the KOSPI between Sept. 1 and Oct. 2. With Samsung Electronics included, two memory makers carried about 85% of it, leaving little foreign selling for the rest of the market.
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Korean investors put $477 million into two defensive US ETFs in September, nearly three times the $168 million sent to a triple-leveraged chip fund. Their $589 million of net buying covers about 7.5% of the $7.8 billion rise in US holdings since August, so price gains account for the rest.
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Institutions net-bought 4.71 trillion won of KOSPI shares in the six sessions before Chuseok, 59% of it in Samsung Electronics. Retail and foreign holders sold into the 6.85% rise, so Samsung's preliminary results now test whether a bet that narrow holds the index above 7,000.
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Yuanta Securities Korea raised its Samsung Electronics target 18.9% to 630,000 won, about 124% above the 281,500 won quote, on an argument that HBM is eating into general-purpose DRAM capacity and pushing the end of the supply squeeze further out.
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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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