US yields falling and taking $USD with it following news that the US Treasury is increasing it bond buy back operation. https://t.co/59ZBPIU1m1 10r yield off 6 bp. 2 yr yield softer.
Why did the KOSPI fall today?
1. Korean leverage trading has climbed to excessively high levels.
2. Ahead of Micron's earnings, profit taking is underway, with talk that buyside expectations have become too elevated.
3. Korean lawmakers are discussing imposing taxes on unrealized gains from stocks.
4. SK Hynix overtaking Samsung Electronics in market capitalization is being read as a market top signal.
Commentary: With Samsung Electronics' earnings scale still exceeding that of SK Hynix, a reversal in market cap can be interpreted as a sign of market overheating.
5. A delay in SK Hynix's ADR listing.
6. The failure of the Korean market to gain inclusion in the MSCI developed markets index, and so on.
Reports of a resumption of joint U.S.-Israeli strikes against Iran are currently assessed as non-credible, as pro-Iranian channels claim that explosions and working air defense systems are the result of air defense exercises.
BREAKING: In exclusive comments to Al Jazeera, Iran’s FM Abbas Araghchi said that the country has no intention of closing the Strait of Hormuz at present, nor any plans to do “anything that would disrupt navigation in it at this stage.”
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