"다시 미국가자" 개미들 '우르르'..급등락 반복에 "무서워서 못 해" / SBS 8뉴스

Anchor Signs of investor exodus are becoming increasingly evident in the domestic stock market, which has experienced repeated sharp fluctuations. Conversely, enthusiasm for investing in U.S. stocks has heated up even further this month. Reporter Lee Tae-kwon will report on the background of these diverging investment trends in Money Move. Reporter This month, market stabilization measures have been triggered almost daily on the KOSPI, including two circuit breakers and twelve sidecars. Amidst extreme volatility, the index has plummeted 26% from its peak recorded a month ago. Deposits held by domestic investors, which serve as funds waiting to enter the stock market, have decreased by over 30 trillion won, falling to the 105 trillion won range. Meanwhile, driven by the atmosphere of interest rate hikes, the balance of time deposits at the five major commercial banks has increased by 22.3 trillion won this month. [Cheon Young-jae / Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province: "(The domestic stock market) is so volatile that it is unpredictable, and because the impact of news is so wide, I was too scared to invest."] The scale of investment by domestic investors in the U.S. stock market is increasing again. While net selling dominated in April and May, it shifted to net buying last month, and this month, as the won-dollar exchange rate began to fall, the volume surged to four times that of the previous month. The so-called "Seohak Ants" (Korean investors investing in Western stocks) most heavily purchased leveraged ETFs that track three times the daily return of the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index, which is composed of semiconductor-related companies such as Nvidia and Micron, followed by SK Hynix ADRs. It is analyzed that they invested in U.S. tech stocks in pursuit of higher returns, expecting a rebound as the domestic stock market recently plummeted. [Shin Seung-jin / Head of Investment Information Team, Samsung Securities: "(In the first half of the year) the market was strong, centered on memory semiconductors, so the incentive to invest in US overseas stocks relatively decreased. Recently, however, as domestic stocks have shown weakness, I suspect that disappointed capital has moved overseas..."] The RIA (Return to Domestic Market Account), which lowers capital gains tax rates when selling overseas stocks and investing in domestic ones, saw its growth slow last month after the 100% exemption ended, and balances have recently even decreased. Single-stock leveraged ETFs, introduced to prevent the outflow of domestic capital, are causing the side effect of increasing volatility. Attention is focused on whether the supplementary measures for single-stock leveraged ETFs, set to be implemented at the end of this month, will be able to reduce volatility and turn investors away. (Video Editing: Lee So-young, Design: Choi Jae-young) #SBSNews #News #Realtime Copyright Ⓒ SBS. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction, redistribution, and use for AI learning are prohibited.