South Korean Authorities Scrambling to Save Stock Market From AI Bubble

https://futurism.com/future-society/south-korea-stock-panic-kopsi-kosdaq-circuit-breaker

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gibmiser@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 20d

Time for the bailouts. Wonder how many trillions of dollars governments will give to these companies

panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 20d (2 replies)

It is still up 71% years over year, I think they’re doing just fine

The only people affected here are the massively over leveraged.

justsomeguy@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 20d (1 reply)

According to Goldman Sachs, more than 1.2 million leveraged retail trading accounts in South Korea triggered margin calls as of July 13, with an estimated 320,000–360,000 accounts fully liquidated. Goldman's strategists reckon this means around one in 30 adults in the country, or 3.4% of the adult ⁠population, have received margin calls.

I think they might've had a couple of those.

panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 20d

Yeah, that tracks.

This is why we can’t have nice things. Companies can’t even leverage their duopoly into 6x increase in profits without degens fucking up the whole stock market.