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short-selling ban: The country with the world s longest short-selling ban is risking a market fall

Synopsis 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. Getty Images 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.

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