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The U.S. central bank announces the benchmark interest rate early tomorrow (22nd).
The so-called Seohak ants, who invest in foreign stocks, are also keen on the prospect that a 1 percentage point increase would not be surprising.
This is reporter Kim Jung-woo.
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University student Park Gyu-yeon started buying foreign stocks at the beginning of last year.
He thought that investing in world-renowned companies would be safer and yield better returns than domestic stocks.
[Park Gyu-yeon / Overseas stock investor: House prices have risen a lot these days, so I thought a lot that I would really need money later.
Companies such as Apple, Facebook, and Netflix are closely related to my daily life, so I feel more comfortable when investing.]
At the end of last year, one out of two investors in their 20s and 30s was found to be 7 times higher than two years ago. increased.
However, there are quite a few people who invest in high-risk, high-return products among Seohak Ants.
Among the top 10 foreign stocks that individual investors net bought in the first half of this year, there were three stocks whose returns tripled when a certain index rose, but whose losses also increased when a certain index fell.
Money is pouring into stocks that can make a lot of money in an instant.
[High-risk (leveraged) product investor: So it's like odd-even, odd-even.
I put in about 400,000 won and lost about half of it.
Because I am not there.] A
strong dollar is also a variable.
Because if the dollar depreciates, further losses are inevitable.
[Kim Dae-jong/Professor of Business Administration at Sejong University: Even if you invest in US stocks, the exchange rate will rise
for the next one or two years, but after that, the exchange rate will fall again, so you should always keep in mind that there is a loss in exchange rates.]
The bigger the market, the greater the volatility, so if you read the wrong direction and invest, you're out of luck.
(Video editing: Eunjin Choi, VJ: Hyunwoo Park)