S. Korean Individuals’ Stock Holdings Jump 58 pct in 2020

SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Stocks held by South Korean retail investors jumped nearly 60 percent in 2020 from a year earlier amid their investment craze, data showed Thursday. Local individuals owned 662 trillion won (US$586 billion) worth of listed shares as of the end of 2020, up 58 percent from a year earlier, [...]