On June 8, CSOP 2x Leveraged Samsung Electronics (07747.HK) plunged 20.28% in regular trading, trading at HKD 154.35, with trading volume of HKD 1.268 billion.
On the news front, surging Fed rate hike expectations triggered a broad sell-off in US tech stocks late last week, sending shockwaves across global markets. The Korean KOSPI index plunged over 8% immediately at open on Monday, triggering its circuit breaker mechanism and halting trading for 20 minutes. Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix both dropped approximately 10% at the open before narrowing losses.
As a 2x leveraged ETF tracking Samsung Electronics, this product amplifies the underlying stock's movements. With Samsung Electronics serving as a dominant KOSPI constituent — the two chip giants together accounting for over 40% of the index weight — the collapse in Korean semiconductor stocks directly magnified the ETF's decline. Record margin lending in Korean equities, which rose 61.6% year-to-date to 27.8 trillion won, has intensified forced liquidations and created a self-reinforcing downward spiral. Korean regulators had previously warned about excessive leveraged stock investment and herd behavior risks.
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