Korea welcomes cooling move after ETF trading triples

Aug 29, 2011

The government moves to calm a surge in trading for leveraged ETFs this month by banning credit lending temporarily. Market consensus is in favour.

Korea welcomes cooling move after ETF trading triples

Overall trading volume for ETFs has more than tripled in South Korea month-on-month amid the growing popularity of two products in particular.

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