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Equities, indexes, earnings, and the moves that reset portfolios.
Meritz Financial Group shares fell more than 6 percent in Seoul after its life insurer booked a fourth-quarter reserve strengthening charge that analysts had not modeled in consensus estimates.
Foreigners sold a net 6.47 trillion won over three sessions as Samsung and SK hynix buyback programs wound down, leaving the benchmark at 6,625.93 before U.S. September CPI prints Wednesday.
Korean retail accounts poured 890 billion won into leveraged Kospi ETFs on Friday while cash equities stayed shut for Hangul Day, widening tracking gaps brokers must explain.
Korean retail investors poured about 890 billion won into two-times Kospi ETFs during the cash-market holiday blackout, flipping from inverse bets as the index held above the 4,000 line on thin overseas sessions.
Cash equities shut Friday through Sunday for Hangul Day while Thursday’s 2.62 percent Kospi drop to 6,625.93 leaves futures and options desks to price chip risk into Tuesday’s reopen.
The U.S. vendor said an unidentified operator used a Chinese-developed penetration-testing platform and large language models to hit loan-inquiry and mobile work systems at several major lenders, as Seoul regulators keep emergency reviews running.
