“32万韩国股民账户被强制平仓”话题登上热搜,券商指“泡沫和杠杆问题严重”
"320000 Korean stockholders' accounts were forced to close out" topic on the hot search, brokerages pointed to "bubble and leverage problems are serious"
The topic of "320,000 South Korean stock investor accounts forcibly closed" trended on social media, with securities firms pointing out "serious bubble and leverage problems."
[Global Times Finance Comprehensive Report] According to the Daily Economic News, as of July 13, South Korea's cumulative forced liquidation scale reached 344.2 billion won (approximately 1.57 billion yuan), with a single-day scale of 144.2 billion won on July 9 alone. More than 1.2 million leveraged retail accounts in the market have reached the margin recovery threshold, of which approximately 320,000 to 360,000 accounts have been fully forced to be liquidated by securities firms, and some accounts have even defaulted on funds owed to securities firms.
According to Cailian Press, South Korea has approximately 35.7 million people aged 15 to 64. Based on this, it is estimated that about one in every 30 working-age people has received a notice of additional security deposit. According to reports, the margin balance in retail brokerage accounts has decreased by approximately 30 trillion won, falling to its lowest level since February 20 this year. Meanwhile, the proportion of accounts receiving additional margin notices rose to about 5% last Friday, and is expected to rise further as the sell-off in the semiconductor sector intensifies.
Data from the Financial Supervisory Service of Korea and other institutions also shows that in the first five months of this year, the number of pension savings insurance cancellations in South Korea increased by 62.7% year-on-year, and the scale of fund redemptions surged by 146.1% year-on-year, with a large amount of funds originally used for retirement and long-term investment flowing into the stock market. South Korea's five major commercial banks consumed more than 85% of their annual household loan quota in the first half of the year. One of the important reasons for the growth in credit loans was that residents "borrowed money to invest in stocks".
West China Securities issued a statement saying that the South Korean market fell further, and there were still multiple meltuses during the week. Considering that there are bubbles and leverage problems in technology assets in the South Korean market, and South Korea has implemented interest rate hikes, due to the large short-term correction, it is expected that the South Korean Composite Index will sometimes have a short-term oversold rebound on the way to the correction. However, after the oversold rebound, there will be further decline in the medium term, especially the high-level assets related to semiconductors and artificial intelligence, before the game heat higher similar Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix and other stocks even if the future short-term oversold rebound, medium-term adjustment pressure is still too large.