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, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Shares in Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix Inc. — South Korea’s two largest chipmakers — plunged amid concerns of a slowdown in memory demand, analysts said Thursday. Samsung lost 1.9 percent to close at 77,000 won (US$66) on the Seoul bourse, the lowest since December 2020. SK hynix [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., Apple Inc. and Kakao Corp. were the three most popular stocks bought by the MZ generation in the early half of this year, a survey said Thursday. Shinhan Investment Corp., one of South Korea’s major financial investment companies, conducted a survey of 400,000 investors who opened [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean retail investors buying foreign stocks have turned to net sellers of shares in electric vehicle leader Tesla Motors Inc. for the first time in the past 18 months. While Tesla’s share price has fallen this month, its CEO Elon Musk’s recent behavior has also risen as a [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s financial regulator is set to partially lift its ban on short selling of listed stocks starting next week, about 14 months after it imposed it to cope with a stock market rout triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. Although retail investors have urged financial authorities to prohibit the [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of stock investors jumped nearly 49 percent in 2020 from a year earlier amid a bullish market run, industry data showed Tuesday. A total of 9.19 million investors held shares in 2,352 companies listed on the country’s main and secondary bourses, up 48.5 percent from a year [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Koreans in their 30s who opt to directly invest in stocks rather than other types of financial assets is increasing at a rapid pace. Rep. Yoo Gyeong-joon of the main opposition People Power Party recently analyzed investment data from Statistics Korea. The analysis showed that [...]
PHOENIX, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) — WillScot Mobile Mini Holdings Corp. (“WillScot Mobile Mini” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: WSC), a North American leader in modular space and portable storage solutions, today announced the pricing of an upsized underwritten, secondary offering (the “Offering”) of 12,750,000 shares (the “Shares”) of its common stock, par value $0.0001 per share [...]
PHOENIX, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) — WillScot Mobile Mini Holdings Corp. (“WillScot Mobile Mini” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: WSC), a North American leader in modular space and portable storage solutions, today announced the launch of an underwritten, secondary offering (the “Offering”) of 10,750,000 shares (the “Shares”) of its common stock, par value $0.0001 per share [...]