On November 6, iShares MSCI South Korea ETF rose 5.18% in Pre-Market Trading, trading at $138.87 with turnover of $23.8641 million.
The move followed a rebound after severe volatility in South Korean equities, where the Korea Composite Stock Price Index had fallen 8% and triggered a circuit breaker that halted trading for 20 minutes, while SK Hynix dropped more than 12% and Samsung Electronics fell more than 10%.
Recent trading in the ETF had already reflected that pressure: it previously fell 5.32% during an earlier session as Korea's market stabilization mechanisms were triggered, highlighting the fund's sensitivity to large technology-heavy constituents. Subsequent bargain-hunting around oversold levels appears to have supported the latest rebound.
The fund generally will invest at least 80% of its assets in the component securities of its underlying index and in investments that have economic characteristics that are substantially identical to the component securities of its underlying index. The index is a free float-adjusted market capitalization-weighted index that is designed to measure the performance of the large- and mid-capitalization segments of the equity market in Korea. The fund is non-diversified.
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