00:02You're listening to AI Prism from Seoul Economic Daily.
00:06If you hold Samsung Electronics or SK Hynix, yesterday was one of the best days of the year and one
00:13of the most fragile.
00:15The cost speed jumped 6.2 percent and both chip giants rallied hard.
00:20But President Lee just ordered new rules for the leveraged ETFs tied to those exact stocks.
00:27And U.S. big tech earnings start next week.
00:30Here's what you're actually sitting on.
00:32It's Thursday, July 16th.
00:34Let's look at what this means for retail investors in Korea.
00:38The rally started overseas, where SK Hynix's U.S.-listed shares soared 27 percent overnight after a bullish Barclays report.
00:49Cooler U.S. inflation data and strong earnings from chip equipment maker ASML added fuel.
00:55At home, though, regulators are moving on the single-stock leveraged ETFs blamed for amplifying recent market swings.
01:03Here's what the numbers show.
01:05The cost speed closed at 7,284.41, up 6.24 percent, with all 32 of the largest stocks rising.
01:16Samsung Electronics rose 6.27 percent to 279,501, and SK Hynix jumped 8.83 percent to 2,082,001,
01:29about $1,400.
01:32Some 84,000 Korean retail investors bought roughly 300,000,000, one, about $200,000,000, of SK Hynix on
01:42its NASDAQ debut.
01:43Foreign investors net bought $2.33 trillion won, the fourth largest daily amount this year, after selling $159.8 trillion
01:55won so far in 2026.
01:58Sixteen single-stock leveraged ETFs launched on May 27th, and President Lee ordered corrective measures on July 15th.
02:07U.S. big tech earnings begin July 22nd with Alphabet, followed by Microsoft and Meta on July 29th, and Amazon
02:15on July 30th.
02:17So what does this mean for individual investors holding Korean stocks?
02:22Earlier, we said this rally was fragile.
02:25Here's what that actually means for you.
02:27The bounce leaned on overseas news and returning foreign money, and analysts expect rollercoaster swings until big tech results confirm
02:37the AI spending story.
02:38If you hold leveraged ETF products, the coming rule changes are the new risk to understand.
02:45Something to know now, not something to act on today.
02:49That's today's AI Prism, Retail Investors.
02:52This episode was produced with AI Assistants, based on Seoul Economic Daily reporting, and reviewed by a human editor.
03:01AI Prism is a Juan Ifra award-winning series.
03:04We'll be back tomorrow.
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