[아이뉴스24 한수연 기자] It was found that foreign investors sold more than 2.6 trillion won in stocks in the domestic stock market last month. It is a net selling for two consecutive months following last December. The realization of profits and the anxiety of the US game stop short selling issue had an impact. However, due to the short-term surge in the index, the foreign holdings’ balance reached 790 trillion won.
According to the Financial Supervisory Service on the 8th, foreign investors net sold 2.5 trillion won in listed stocks last month and net invested 1,158 trillion won in listed bonds, making a total return of 1.4 trillion won. Foreigners net sold stocks for the second month and converted bonds to net investment in three months.
As of the end of last month, foreigners have a total of 939 trillion won worth of listed securities, including 787 trillion won in listed stocks (31.6% of the market cap) and 151 trillion won in listed bonds (7.3% of the listing balance).
Foreigners net sold stocks, but due to the increase in stock prices, they held an additional 23.6 trillion won compared to the previous month. During this period, KOSPI and KOSDAQ stocks were net sold for KRW 2.353 trillion and KRW 297 billion, respectively.
By region, net purchases were made in Asia (1.2 trillion won) and Europe (1 trillion won), and sold in the Americas (3.6 trillion won) and the Middle East (200 billion won).
By country, Singapore (1.6 trillion won) and Ireland (900 billion won) bought them, and the US (3.4 trillion won) and the Cayman Islands (500 billion won) sold net.
The net holdings were KRW 324 trillion (41.2% of the total foreigners) in the United States, KRW 244.1 trillion in Europe (31.0%), KRW 103 trillion in Asia (13.1%), and KRW 29 trillion in the Middle East (3.8%). Appeared.
In addition, foreigners net bought KRW 3.79 trillion of listed bonds last month, but net invested a total of KRW 1.158 trillion due to the effect of KRW 2.64 trillion in repayment to maturity. This seems to be due to the higher interest rates on government bonds than countries with similar credit ratings.
As of the end of last month, foreigners hold a listed bond of 151.5 trillion won, an increase of 1.4 trillion won compared to the previous month.
By region, net investment was made in Asia (1.4 trillion won), Middle East (300 billion won), and Americas (40 billion won), but it was counted that it was recovered from Europe (1.3 trillion won). The amount of ownership was in the order of 74 trillion won in Asia (49.5% of the total foreigners), 44.2 trillion won in Europe (29.2%), and 12.9 trillion won in Americas (8.5%).
Foreigners net invested in both government bonds (800 billion won) and mobile bank bonds (100 billion won), and as of the end of last month, they own 122.8 trillion won (81.0%) government bonds and 28.66 trillion won (18.9%) special bonds.
By remaining maturity, net investment was made in bonds of more than 5 years (1.2 trillion won) and less than 1 to 5 years (1.2 trillion won) and recovered from bonds less than one year (1.3 trillion won).
As of the end of the previous year, bonds with a remaining maturity of less than 1 to 5 years hold 61.3 trillion won (40.4%), 47 trillion won (31.6%) over 5 years, and 42 trillion won (28.0%) for less than one year It was counted as being doing.
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