On July 17, Southern 2x Long SK Hynix declined 14.31% in regular trading, trading at 48.22 HKD/share, with turnover of 1.136 billion HKD.

On the news front, overnight US equities closed lower with technology and growth stocks under pressure, triggering a broad semiconductor sector retreat that weighed on the underlying asset SK Hynix. As a 2x leveraged product, the ETF magnified the decline in the underlying stock through its daily rebalancing mechanism.

Market risk appetite declined notably, with inverse and defensive ETFs strengthening. The 2x Short SK Hynix ETF surged 26.60% on the day, while the 3x Short Semiconductor ETF gained over 13%, reflecting significant pressure across the memory chip supply chain. Additionally, the Bank of Korea's recent rate hike of 25 basis points to 2.75% and regulatory moves to raise minimum margin thresholds for single-stock leveraged ETFs from 10 million to 50 million Korean won have yet to be fully digested, keeping market sentiment subdued.

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