🇰🇷 South Korea's $KOSPI just triggered its sixth circuit breaker of the year. The 12th in the exchange's entire history.


This happened on the same day Samsung reported its best quarterly profit ever, $58.6 billion, beating every estimate on the board.
Samsung and SK Hynix make up roughly half of KOSPI's total weight. When record earnings from your two biggest names still can't stop foreign investors from dumping over $2 billion in shares, that's not a reaction to the news. That's a reaction to how priced-in the news already was.
Retail tried to defend the index, buying $2.3 billion net. They got overwhelmed anyway.
Level 2 halt trips at a 15% decline from the previous close. Level 3 shuts the market for the day at 20%. Neither hit today. But this is the sixth time in 2026 the exchange needed a stabilizer just to get through a single session.
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