Korea Exchange Activates Buy-Side Circuit Breaker After Kospi200 Futures Jump More Than 5 Percent

The latest halt follows 33 sidecar activations this year and arrives with a JP Morgan warning that leverage products have turned volatility into a permanent market feature.

Korea's stock market triggered its buy-side circuit breaker on July 10 after Kospi200 futures climbed more than 5 percent, halting trading at the 5 percent upside limit. The move reversed the pattern seen two days earlier, when a 5.15 percent drop in the KOSPI index activated sell-side suspensions across both the KOSPI and KOSDAQ markets.

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