SEOUL, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Overseas stock purchases by South Korean retail investors jumped to a record high level in April amid signs that the coronavirus outbreak is slowing down, data showed Friday. Korean retail investors bought US$2.01 billion worth of foreign stocks from April 1-27, marking the largest overseas stock buying on a [...]
SEOUL, April 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Mobile trading has become a dominant investment tool in South Korea, propelled by retail investors’ stock rush, bourse operator said Thursday. The mobile trading system (MTS), or smartphone trading, took up the largest 47.6 percent of turnover in terms of trading tools from April 1-17, according to the data [...]
SEOUL, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean retail investors have remained in a net buying mode this year despite a sharp drop in local stock prices, data showed Thursday. Individual investors have bought a net 14.3 trillion won (US$12 billion) worth of local stocks as of Wednesday this year, according to the data compiled [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean retail investors have rushed to fill in a stock market vacuum left by fleeing foreigners since the country confirmed its first coronavirus case in late January, data showed Friday. Individual investors’ net buying of local stocks reached upwards of 9 trillion won (US$7.6 billion) between Jan. 20, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean retail investors, spooked by a bearish run on the local stock market, almost doubled their investment in U.S. stocks this year on hopes for steady gains on the back of strong fundamentals in the world’s largest economy and progress in trade talks between Washington and Beijing, data [...]