Foreigners Net Buyers of Listed Stocks for 2 Consecutive Months Last Month... Purchased 3.299 Trillion Won

Last month, foreigners made a net investment of a total of 14.164 trillion KRW. They net purchased stocks for two consecutive months and net invested in bonds for three consecutive months.

According to the foreign securities investment trends announced by the Financial Supervisory Service on the 8th, foreigners net purchased 3.299 trillion KRW in listed stocks last month. They net purchased 4.015 trillion KRW in the KOSPI market and net sold 716 billion KRW in the KOSDAQ market. As of the end of last month, foreigners held 693.3 trillion KRW, which accounts for 27.1% of the total market capitalization.

By region, net purchases were 1.6 trillion KRW in the Americas, 1 trillion KRW in Europe, and 400 billion KRW in Asia. By country, the United States net purchased 1.5 trillion KRW, Luxembourg 900 billion KRW, while the United Kingdom sold 500 billion KRW and Australia sold 200 billion KRW. The holding size was 282 trillion KRW in the United States, accounting for 40.7% of the total foreign holdings. Europe held 216.9 trillion KRW (31.3%), Asia 92.6 trillion KRW (13.4%), and the Middle East 22.1 trillion KRW (3.2%).

In the bond market last month, foreigners net purchased 16.04 trillion KRW in listed bonds and received 5.175 trillion KRW in maturity repayments, resulting in a total net investment of 10.865 trillion KRW. As of the end of May, they held 238.7 trillion KRW, which corresponds to 9.7% of the outstanding listed bonds.

By region, net investments were made in Europe (3.4 trillion KRW), the Middle East (2.4 trillion KRW), Asia (1.9 trillion KRW), and the Americas (1 trillion KRW). The holding size was identified as 107.5 trillion KRW (45.0%) in Asia and 71.3 trillion KRW (29.9%) in Europe.

They made net investments in government bonds (8.2 trillion KRW) and Monetary Stabilization Bonds (4.2 trillion KRW), holding 205.6 trillion KRW (86.1%) in government bonds and 32.3 trillion KRW (13.5%) in special bonds as of the end of May.

By remaining maturity, net investments were made in bonds with less than 1 year (2 trillion KRW), 1 to less than 5 years (5.3 trillion KRW), and over 5 years (3.5 trillion KRW). As of the end of last month, bonds with less than 1 year remaining maturity accounted for 59.9 trillion KRW (25.1%), 1 to less than 5 years 89.7 trillion KRW (37.6%), and over 5 years 89.1 trillion KRW (37.3%).

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