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iShares MSCI South Korea ETF / EWY
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EWY references 1 share of the iShares MSCI South Korea ETF (NYSE Arca: EWY), quoted in USD. The fund provides exposure to large- and mid-cap South Korean equities; local-currency exposure is embedded in the ETF.
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EWY's 5% Bounce Is an Oversold Reflex in Korea's Chip Whipsaw
EWY is up 5.32% over 21 hours to $165.10 with no fresh headline behind it. This is the same pattern that's run the tape for two weeks: a violent snap-back after forced-selling flushes tied to Korea's memory-chip complex. Nearly half the fund is SK Hynix and Samsung, so it trades like a leveraged bet on HBM demand rather than a broad Korea play. The real backdrop is a cooler June CPI print and SK Hynix's Nasdaq debut against still-unfinished retail deleveraging.
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EWY's 5% Bounce Is an Oversold Reflex in Korea's Chip Whipsaw
EWY is up 5.32% over 21 hours to $165.10 with no fresh headline behind it. This is the same pattern that's run the tape for two weeks: a violent snap-back after forced-selling flushes tied to Korea's memory-chip complex. Nearly half the …
EWY Gives Back Its Chip Bounce as SK Hynix and Samsung Resume Their Slide
EWY's Hyperliquid perp has faded 6.40% over 19 hours to $169.10, giving back almost the entire bounce it staged after Monday's Black Monday crash in Seoul. There is no fresh catalyst behind Wednesday's slide — it reads as mean reversion …
EWY Rebounds 8.76% as Samsung and SK Hynix Reverse Korea's Midday Crash
EWY's Hyperliquid perp is up 8.76% over 13 hours to $177.10, retracing most of the chip-driven washout that had dragged the fund back toward $168. The move tracks a real V-shape in Seoul: the KOSPI fell more than 5% intraday to its lowes…
EWY's Weekend Perp Fade Gives Back Korea's Chip Bounce on a Thin Book
EWY's Hyperliquid perp is down 6.78% over six hours to $171.50, and there's no news behind it. It's Sunday night in New York, Korean equities and the US-listed cash ETF are both closed, and a thin weekend book is repricing the fund below…
EWY Bounces as Korea's Chip Rout Reverses Off a Bear-Market Low
EWY's HIP-3 perp is up 6.27% over 24 hours to $183.70, tracking a roughly 4% KOSPI rebound the day after Korea's benchmark fell 5.35% into a bear market. The selloff and the bounce are the same trade: Samsung and SK Hynix, which together…
EWY Fades Into Samsung's Q2 Print as Foreigners Sell Korea a 12th Straight Session
EWY's HIP-3 perp is down 4.96% over 24 hours to $183.90, and it happened on a day the KOSPI actually opened green. Seoul gapped up more than 1% and touched 8,300 intraday before reversing to close down 0.46% at 8,051.33, as foreign inves…
EWY Rebounds as Korea's AI-Chip Rout Reverses and Anthropic Circles Samsung
EWY's HIP-3 perp is back to $188.80, up 6.79% in 21 hours, and the move is entirely Seoul: the KOSPI rebounded 5.76% to 8,088.34 one session after an AI-chip rout knocked it down 7.89%. The bounce was bargain hunting in Samsung and SK Hy…
EWY Erases Its Rebound as Korea's Chip Selloff Resumes and the Won Hits a 17-Year Low
EWY's HIP-3 perp is back to $193.80, down 7.53% over 14 hours and below where it traded before this week's whipsaw. The dead-cat bounce off Tuesday's near-10% Kospi crash has fully unwound: Korean equities rolled over again as Samsung an…
EWY Rebounds as Samsung's 90 Trillion Won Buyback Report Reverses Kospi's Crash
EWY's HIP-3 perp is back to $204.90, up 6.56% in an hour, clawing back part of one of the worst sessions in the ETF's 25-year history. The bounce is a straight read-through from Seoul, where the Kospi rebounded a day after a near-10% cir…
EWY Falls 8.88% as Korea's Kospi Sells Off From Its Record High
EWY's HIP-3 perp fell 8.88% over 12 hours to $200.2 as South Korea's Kospi dropped roughly 5.7% from a record high it had set just one session earlier. The selling was chip-led — Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, which together make up c…
EWY Bounces as Trump's Iran Settlement Triggers a Korea Risk-On Bid
EWY's HIP-3 perp is up 6.24% over 21 hours to $195.30, dragged higher by a global risk-on bid after President Trump claimed a settlement in the Iran war and called off U.S. military strikes. Oil fell more than 4%, the S&P 500 rose 1.8%, …
EWY Erases the Broadcom Crash on Korea's Record Chip Exports
EWY's HIP-3 perp is up 15.18% over 24 hours to $201.30, all but completing a round trip of the early-June crash that took Korean equities down roughly 14% intraday on a Broadcom-led AI scare. The fuel is hard data: South Korea's exports …
EWY Round-Trips the Crash on Korea's Record Chip-Export Print
EWY's HIP-3 perp is up 10.45% over 20 hours to $194.10, erasing most of the circuit-breaker selloff that hammered Korean equities at the start of June. This time there's a real catalyst under the bounce: South Korea's customs data showed…
EWY Round-Trips Its Nvidia-Pact Bounce as Korea's Foreign Sell Wall Reasserts
EWY's HIP-3 perp is down 7.42% over 17 hours to $180.60, giving back most of the Nvidia–SK Hynix memory-pact bounce it caught earlier in the week. There's no fresh headline behind the renewed slide — it's the relief rally fading into the…
EWY Rebounds 5.30% as Nvidia–SK Hynix Memory Pact Reverses Korea's Circuit-Breaker Selloff
EWY's HIP-3 perp is up 5.30% to $185.80 over 24 hours, a sharp reversal after South Korea's KOSPI fell more than 8% intraday and tripped a Level 1 circuit breaker. The bounce traces to a multi-year Nvidia–SK Hynix partnership to codevelo…
EWY Drops 14.21% as Broadcom's AI Guidance Miss Cracks Korea's Chip Concentration
EWY fell 14.21% over 24 hours to $174.90 as Broadcom's softer-than-expected AI revenue guidance cascaded straight into Seoul's memory names. SK Hynix lost 9.92% and Samsung Electronics shed 6.40% — the two stocks that make up roughly 44%…
EWY Cracks 6.60% as Samsung Strike Snaps KOSPI From a Fresh 8,046 Record
KOSPI tagged a fresh 8,046.78 record intraday Friday and then collapsed 6.12% to 7,493.18 after Samsung Electronics' union confirmed the 18-day strike begins May 21. Samsung fell 8.61% and SK Hynix dropped 7.66%, dragging the index hard …
EWY Rips 7.97% as Seoul Walks Back the AI Citizen Dividend
President Lee Jae-myung went on X to clarify that policy chief Kim Yong-beom's viral Facebook post was about distributing excess tax revenue, not a new windfall tax on Samsung and SK Hynix. The market took the hint. KOSPI closed at a fre…
EWY Cracks After Korea's Chief of Staff Floats an AI 'Citizen Dividend' Tax
Kim Yong-beom, President Lee Jae-myung's chief of staff for policy, posted on Facebook that excess profits from the AI era should be structurally returned to all citizens, citing Norway's sovereign wealth fund as the template. Foreign de…
KOSPI Posts Sharpest Bounce in Weeks After Trump Says Iran War Could End in Two to Three Weeks
Trump told reporters on March 31 that the US could wrap up its Iran operations in two to three weeks without requiring a formal deal, and both Washington and Tehran signaled willingness to end hostilities on the same day. That was enough…
Google's TurboQuant Paper Triggers a Memory Chip Rout — and EWY Takes the Hit
Google Research published TurboQuant on March 25, claiming its new compression algorithm can cut AI inference memory requirements by six times. That was enough to send Samsung Electronics down 4.71% and SK Hynix down 6.23% in Seoul, drag…
How to Trade iShares MSCI South Korea ETF (EWY) on Hyperliquid
EWY is BlackRock's flagship South Korea equity ETF, tracking the MSCI Korea 25/50 Index across 85 large- and mid-cap Korean stocks. It is now available as a HIP-3 perpetual futures contract on Hyperliquid, giving traders 24/7 leveraged a…
EWY Rips Off Circuit-Breaker Lows as Saudi Spot Crude Eases Oil Panic
South Korea's benchmark Kospi triggered its second circuit breaker in four sessions on Monday as oil topped $110 a barrel amid the escalating US-Israel-Iran conflict and near-closure of the Strait of Hormuz. EWY traded as low as $119.55 …
EWY Plunges as KOSPI Posts Worst Day Ever After Iran Strikes Qatar LNG Hub
The iShares MSCI South Korea ETF dropped over 10% in 22 hours on Hyperliquid after South Korea's KOSPI benchmark [posted its worst single-day crash in history](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/south-korea-kospi-just-had-133506380.html) — a…
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