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[Alpha Biz=(Chicago) Reporter Paul Lee] Foreigners sold a net KRW 1.712 trillion in listed stocks in Korea last month. Listed bonds also circulated 637 billion won, leaving a total of 2.3 trillion won out of the local stock market, the report showed.
According to the Financial Supervisory Service on the 19th, foreigners sold a net KRW 1.214 trillion in the securities market and KRW 498 billion in the KOSDAQ market last month.
Foreigners' net selling of local stocks has continued for two months.
As of the end of last month, its holdings amounted to 663.7 trillion won, which is 26.7% of its market capitalization.
By region, the Americas (KRW 1.8 trillion), Asia (KRW 800 billion), and the Middle East (KRW 200 billion) bought net, but sold a net KRW 3.7 trillion worth of stocks in Europe.
By country, the U.S. (1.2 trillion won), Canada (600 billion won) and others net bought, while Britain (3 trillion won) and Switzerland (700 billion won) net sold.
By size of possession, the U.S. accounted for 41.3 percent of all foreigners, followed by Europe (30.7 percent), Asia (13.4 percent) and the Middle East (3.1 percent).
Listed bonds bought a net KRW 8.16 trillion and received a maturity repayment of KRW 8.653 trillion, recovering a total of KRW 637 billion. It has also been showing net views for two consecutive months.
As of the end of last month, its holdings amounted to 242.4 trillion won, down about 100 billion won from the previous month. This is equivalent to 9.8% of the listed balance.
By region, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas made a net investment of 300 billion won each, while Europe recovered about 500 billion won.
Alphabiz Reporter Paul Lee(hoondork1977@alphabiz.co.kr)
