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South Korea's stock market, centered on the KOSPI index and major exporters like Samsung, influenced by chip exports, foreign flows and the won-dollar rate.
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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Korea's 10 most-bought ETFs took in 5.35 trillion won over a month and averaged 0.83%, while KOSDAQ supplier funds led the return table at 26% to 32%. Earnings season will test whether 2.17 trillion won parked in two cash funds follows them.
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Four of five Korean 'patriotic' funds reviewed by Seoul Economic Daily returned 105% to 147% over the past year. Returns that close across governance, chip-growth and industrial-policy mandates point to a lift across the whole market more than to any one strategy.
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Samsung Electronics has finished buying back 53.8 million of its own shares, 100.96% of the plan it began in August. Its stock now goes into next week's preliminary third-quarter results with no company purchases in the market.
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KOSPI rose 1.95% to 6,971.35 on October 1 as Korea's September chip exports hit a record $60.3 billion, reversing a yield-driven early dip. The session shows chip news can beat US rate pressure for a day. How long it can keep doing so depends on how long the memory shortage lasts.
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KODEX200, which tracks Korea's KOSPI 200, returned 80.76% this year to Sept. 20, about 40 times what big-bank deposits paid. Savers paid that gap for holding cash since January, while Daishin's own analyst puts further upside at about 8.5% and ties it to easing rates and oil.
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The preferred rose 15.34% in September against 9.00% for the common, and at 219,500 won one quarter's extra yield is worth about half a percentage point. The rest of the gap prices a cancellation proposal the board decides in January.
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A Nasdaq buyer of SK hynix paid an implied 2,558,200 won for a share Seoul priced at 1,697,000. Of that position, 861,200 won, a third of the money, depends on the gap staying open.
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Individuals net sold 459.8 billion won across five semiconductor ETFs in the first eleven days of September and put 90.1 billion won into the gold, nuclear, battery and power funds credited with the rotation.
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Korea's index opened up 2.15% and closed down 1.55% because the U.S. 30-year hit a 19-year high. Nvidia's Ohio residual-value guarantee is the same trade in different clothing.
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