SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Retail investors who bought shares of foreign luxury brands such as Hermes, Louis Vuitton and Gucci enjoyed higher returns this year. According to data from the Korea Securities Depository, the most net-bought stock by domestic individual investors among those listed on the French stock market was Hermes International SCA. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean retail investors have been snapping up shares of electric vehicle-themed exchange traded fund (ETF) while dumping shares of Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc., data showed Sunday. The most-sold stocks by retail investors during the five weeks from Nov. 1 to Dec. 3 were the two [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of overseas stock accounts held by South Korean retail investors jumped 74 percent in the first half of the year from six months earlier amid their brisk investment in foreign shares, data showed Wednesday. Local individual investors held about 3.31 million overseas stock accounts as of end-June, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Starting from next year, retail investors will be able to buy blue-chip stocks costing tens of thousands of won per share in decimal points not only from foreign stock exchanges but also at domestic ones. The Financial Services Commission (FSC), the nation’s top financial regulator, announced that it had [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean retail investors have doubled their stake in Samsung Electronics Co. in eight months amid foreigners’ selling spree, data showed Thursday. Local individual investors had net-bought 394 million shares in the global tech behemoth as of Wednesday this year, or 6.6 percent of its outstanding shares, according to [...]
SEOUL, June 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea retail investors have traded more than US$1.7 billion worth of shares in AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc., one of the social media-driven meme stocks, this month, data showed Friday. Local individual investors’ transactions of shares in the top U.S. movie theater chain came to $1.76 billion in the [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of retail investors who own less than a 1 percent stake in Samsung Electronics Co. is estimated at about 4 million. According to a quarterly report submitted by the South Korea’s electronics giant on Monday, the company had roughly 3.9 million individual shareholders as of March 31. [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Retail investors’ stock ownership in Samsung Electronics Co., South Korea’s most valuable company, surpassed 10 percent for the first time as they went bargain hunting for its shares amid the COVID-19 pandemic last year, industry data showed Sunday. Individual investors owned a total of 65.3 million common shares of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean retail investors’ stock frenzy appears to be going strong with their net stock buying nearing 100 trillion won since January last year, industry data showed Sunday. According to the data, individual investors scooped up a net 99.24 trillion won (US$87.92 billion) since January 2020, with the monthly [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean retail investors pared down their net buying of local stocks in February as the country’s key stock index traded in a tight range following a bull run, data showed Sunday. Retail investors snapped up a net 5.8 trillion won (US$5.24 billion) worth of stocks on the main [...]