The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) is proven on the display screen contained in the dealing room at Hana Bank in central Seoul, Wednesday. Yonhap
The worth of inventory quick promoting grew by greater than 500 billion received ($338 million) on the primary buying and selling day following the U.S. and Israel’s air strikes towards Iran, trade information confirmed Wednesday.
The worth of short-selling transactions reached 2.46 trillion received Tuesday, up by 518 billion received from the earlier session, in accordance with the info from the Korea Exchange (KRX), Korea’s primary bourse operator.
On Tuesday, the benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) plunged by greater than 7 p.c as risk-averse sentiment grew amid escalating tensions within the Middle East.
The worth of short-selling transactions on that day compares with the each day common of 1.9 trillion received in 2025.
Short promoting is an funding technique of promoting borrowed securities with the intent of repaying them with shares bought later at a lower cost. Short sellers achieve revenue from a drop in inventory costs.
Expectations that volatility will improve within the native inventory market, together with a pointy drop within the Korean received, which as soon as plunged to the bottom degree since 2009, might have fanned short-selling demand, analysts stated.
“The KOSPI continued to rise sharply in January and February, and was at a point where it needed a temporary easing to stop overheating,” stated Lee Kyoung-min, an analyst at Daishin Securities.
