The Zhitong Finance App learned that Korean retail investors previously heavily leveraged their bets on leading AI stocks in the country, but now the market has reversed drastically and lost a lot, revealing the huge risks hidden in this speculative trading boom boosting one of the hottest stock markets in the world. The most hurt were investors holding single-stock leveraged ETFs from Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. This type of product previously soared along with the AI-driven semiconductor bull market, but now it has taken a U-turn.

Zhitongcaijing · 2d ago
The Zhitong Finance App learned that Korean retail investors previously heavily leveraged their bets on leading AI stocks in the country, but now the market has reversed drastically and lost a lot, revealing the huge risks hidden in this speculative trading boom boosting one of the hottest stock markets in the world. The most hurt were investors holding single-stock leveraged ETFs from Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. This type of product previously soared along with the AI-driven semiconductor bull market, but now it has taken a U-turn.