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Korea, whose benchmark surged last year and is up 8 per cent in 2021, this week bowed to retail investor pressure and extended the ban on the key hedging tool, unsettling institutions.
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Traders said that without the benefit of short-selling, they are having to use futures of stocks to hedge their exposure.
A growing number of fund managers and traders are worried that South Korea’s pandemic-imposed ban on short-selling, the world’s longest-such restriction, has artificially propped up the country’s stock market rally.
The decision this week to extend the short-selling ban imposed in March last year to tame pandemic-hit markets until early May will likely backfire, they said. Korea, whose benchmark surged last year and is up 8 per cent in 2021, this week bowed to retail investor pressure and extended the ban on the key hedging tool, unsettling institutions.
Magna in electric-car parts joint venture with LG Electronics
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LG Electronics Inc. plans to spin off some its electric-car components business into a new joint venture with Canadaâs Magna International Inc.
Magna will buy a 49 per cent stake in the new unit for 501.6 billion won (US$453 million) while the remainder will be owned by LG Electronics, the South Korean company said in an exchange filing. The joint venture will make e-motors, inverters and electric-drive systems in factories in Incheon in Korea and Nanjing in China, people familiar with the matter said earlier Wednesday.
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