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South Korea's leveraged ETF experiment just showed the world what AI equity froth looks like when it breaks
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South Korea's leveraged ETF experiment just showed the world what AI equity froth looks like when it breaks
South Korea's Kospi is up 90% this year and Taiwan's TAIEX has hit record highs, both driven almost entirely by Samsung, SK Hynix, and TSMC. But a June 23 selloff triggered by single-stock leveraged ETFs wiped nearly 10% off the Kospi in a single session and sent Nasdaq futures tumbling, exposing how dangerously concentrated, and structurally fragile, the global AI chip rally has become.
Julian Lim
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