On June 26, Direxion Daily South Korea Bull 3X Shares declined 9.9% in pre-market trading, trading at $746.01/share, with turnover of $17.28 million.
On the news front, Apple and Microsoft successively announced product price increases to offset cost pressures from memory chip shortages driven by AI data center expansion. The market fears that AI costs passing through to consumers will undermine end-user demand, triggering a broad repricing of semiconductor stocks.
The Korean KOSPI index plunged as much as 8.2% intraday, activating the circuit breaker mechanism and halting trading for 20 minutes — the second such suspension this week. Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix both fell over 9%. Additionally, geopolitical risks escalated as the International Maritime Organization suspended vessel evacuation operations in the Strait of Hormuz after a ship was attacked in the Gulf of Oman, further suppressing risk appetite. As a triple-leveraged product, KORU fully amplified the decline in the underlying Korean equity index.
The fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in financial instruments providing daily leveraged exposure to an index designed to measure the performance of the large- and mid-cap segments of the South Korean equity market, covering approximately 85% of the free float-adjusted market capitalization of South Korean issuers. It is non-diversified.
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