Foreigners' Net Selling of Domestic Stocks for 3 Consecutive Months... Bond Holdings Reach All-Time High

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jihwan] Last month, foreigners net sold 5.393 trillion KRW worth of domestic stocks. Despite selling domestic stocks for three consecutive months, investment in safe assets such as bonds has continuously increased since January, reaching an all-time high.

According to the 'April Foreign Securities Investment Trends' data released by the Financial Supervisory Service on the 11th, foreigners net sold 5.393 trillion KRW worth of listed domestic stocks last month.

Foreigners have maintained a net selling trend for three months in the domestic stock market, selling 3.225 trillion KRW in February and 13.45 trillion KRW in March.

On the other hand, bond investments have continued to see net inflows since January. The scale of bond investment, which was 4.623 trillion KRW in January, sharply decreased to 570 billion KRW in February but recovered to 3.581 trillion KRW in March.

As of the end of last month, foreigners held 505 trillion KRW worth of listed stocks, accounting for 31.5% of the market capitalization. Listed bonds amounted to 140.5 trillion KRW, representing 7.3%. Notably, the scale of foreign bond holdings is at an all-time high.

By region, the United States held 214.6 trillion KRW worth of stocks, accounting for 42.5% of the total. This was followed by △Europe 147.4 trillion KRW (29.2%) △Asia 64.1 trillion KRW (12.7%) △Middle East 18.7 trillion KRW (3.7%).

For bonds, Asia held the largest share at 63.9 trillion KRW, accounting for 45.5%. Europe followed with 46.9 trillion KRW (33.4%), and the Americas with 10.8 trillion KRW (7.7%). By type, government bonds and Monetary Stabilization Bonds saw net investments of 4.2 trillion KRW and 2.8 trillion KRW, respectively. By remaining maturity, bonds with less than one year to maturity accounted for the highest proportion with net investments of 5.2 trillion KRW. In particular, net investment in bonds with less than one year remaining maturity reached the largest scale since April 2008.

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