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the so-called'debt investment', in which individual investors owed debt to stock trading, surged, it was found that securities companies earned about 1 trillion won only on interest last year.
According to the 2020 results disclosed by securities firms to the Financial Investment Association, 57 domestic securities firms earned 997 billion won in interest earned from private credit loan transactions last year.
This is a 33% increase from 2019 and is the largest since 2009 when related statistics began to be compiled.
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Last month, the nationwide housing transaction volume decreased by more than 35% compared to the previous month, and the sudden overheating of house prices has somewhat subsided.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said last month that the volume of home sales was 9,679, down 35.4% from the previous month and 10.5% from the same period last year.
By region, the volume of transactions in the metropolitan area decreased by 25.4% compared to the previous month, and the volume of local transactions decreased by 43.5%.
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was found that about half of households with the lower 20% of incomes were able to survive the deficit in the fourth quarter of last year due to the corona 19 outbreak.
According to the National Statistical Office, the proportion of households with a deficit in the first quintile among households with two or more persons nationwide reached 50.7%.
This means that half of the households lived in the deficit because of their spending more than their disposable income.
The job shock can be interpreted as the concentration of jobs in low-income groups with unstable jobs.
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The Fair Trade Commission is addressing the alleged abuse of Google's market dominance in April.
According to the government, the FTC will hold a plenary meeting in April to discuss the level of sanctions against Google's alleged ``forced to install its own operating system''.
Since 2016, the FTC has been investigating whether Google has established an exclusive position in the market by excluding competitors by forcing smartphone manufacturers such as Samsung to preload Android.