Unease over Korea leveraged ETFs grows as lawmakers demand fix

Sangmi Cha / Bloomberg07-06 03:47

South Korean lawmakers are increasingly sounding alarms over the risks of singlestock leveraged exchangetraded funds, with an opposition party member now calling for such products to be delisted.(July...

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