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Banks Curb FOMO-Chasing Levered Bets On Korean Tech Firms
Banks Curb FOMO-Chasing Levered Bets On Korean Tech Firms
SK Hynix has been THE poster-child for 'Vol Up, Spot Up' FOMO-chasing over the past few months of exuberant semi-shortage panic-buying...
And volumes in levered Semi trades has been astronomical...
With SK Hynix standing out among the most-levered bets...
Driven by massive speculative momentum (margin loans at record highs)...
...which faced huge forced liquidations amid the recent volatility...
So it really should not be a surprise that Bloomberg reports that global banks are curbing hedge funds’ leveraged bets on Asia’s top chipmakers including SK Hynix and Samsung.
According...
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