Kospi, which has been hot since the first week of 2021, recorded the largest weekly gain ever.



According to the Korea Exchange, on the 8th, the KOSPI closed at 3,152.18, and rose 278.71 points per week.



This is the largest weekly gain.



The previous maximum was 174.31 points, recorded for 5 trading days on October 27-31, 2008.



The increase rate was 9.70%.



This is the highest weekly increase rate since October 27-31, 2008 (18.57%), when it fell below the 1,000 line due to the financial crisis and then rebounded.



During the week, individuals, institutions, and foreigners took turns buying stocks, creating an index surge.



Individuals net bought 1.3 trillion won on the 4th and 1,732.9 trillion won, the third largest ever on the 6th.



On the 7th, the institution showed an advantage in buying 1.33 trillion won.



On the 8th, foreigners net bought 1.6 trillion won, the second largest ever.



The rumors of cooperation between Hyundai Motor Company and Apple, and three major Chinese telecommunications companies such as China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom were excluded from the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) index.



The trading value also surged.



On the 8th, the transaction value of KOSPI was 40,99.5 billion, the highest record (29,99.4 billion won, the last 6 days) in two days.



The sharp increase in transactions between Samsung Electronics (5,833 trillion won) and Hyundai Motors (4,851 trillion won) was largely affected.



The average daily trading value for a week amounted to about 30 trillion won.



As the stock market participation heats up, some brokerage firms have delayed inquiries and orders in the trading system.



As of the 8th, the market cap of the KOSPI exceeded 2,100 trillion won for the first time in history at 2,170 trillion won.



It has been four days since it exceeded 2,000 trillion won for the first time on the 4th.



Nevertheless, there are still plenty of stock market funds.



Customer deposits amounted to about 70 trillion won on the 5th, the record high on the 5th.



As of the 7th, the deposit amount was 69,2719 billion won, which is a slight decrease.



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