On August 31, Direxion Daily MSCI South Korea Bull 3x Shares fell 8.62% overnight, trading at $19.0/share, with turnover of $15.6284 million.
On the news front, the Korean market experienced a sharp cooldown as investors collectively pulled back. The Bank of Korea raised its benchmark seven-day repo rate by 25 basis points to 3.0% on August 27, marking its second consecutive rate hike since resuming tightening in July. The central bank significantly raised its GDP growth forecast for this year from 2.6% to 3.3%, citing an unprecedented semiconductor boom, while CPI projections remained at 2.7%. The rate hike drove the Korean won stronger, with USD/KRW falling 0.5% to 1,378.30, further pressuring valuations of export-oriented firms. Meanwhile, global semiconductor stocks broadly declined, with NVIDIA down 0.63%, Micron Technology down 1.89%, and SK Hynix down 3.06% overnight. As a triple-leveraged product, the fund amplified the benchmark index losses.
Direxion Daily MSCI South Korea Bull 3x Shares 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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