Movement Alert|Direxion Daily MSCI South Korea Bull 3x Shares Falls 8.02% in Regular Trading, Bank of Korea Consecutive Rate Hikes and Semiconductor Weakness Weigh on Korean Equities

Market Focus
Sep 02

On September 1, Direxion Daily MSCI South Korea Bull 3x Shares declined 8.02% in regular trading, trading at $19.28/share, with turnover of $313 million.

On the news front, the Bank of Korea raised its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points for the second consecutive time on August 27 to 3.0%, with the six-month dot plot median forecast further lifted to 3.25%. The stronger Korean won has weighed on export-oriented corporate valuations. Meanwhile, the KOSPI index opened down 0.52% on September 1 after falling more than 3% intraday in the prior session. The global semiconductor sector also faced broad selling pressure, with memory chip stocks weakening collectively — Micron Technology fell 1.89% and SK Hynix dropped 3.06% in recent sessions, further dragging on Korean market sentiment.

As a triple-leveraged product, KORU amplifies the losses of its underlying Korean benchmark index, magnifying the combined impact of monetary tightening and tech sector headwinds.

The fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in financial instruments providing daily leveraged exposure to the MSCI South Korea Index, which covers approximately 85% of the free float-adjusted market capitalization of South Korean issuers. It is non-diversified.

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