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Retail Investors Rush to Buy Stocks amid Market Rout

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, [...]

Korean Retail Investors Flock to U.S. Stocks

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 [...]