[Alpha Biz=(Chicago) Reporter Paul Lee] Investor deposits, a waiting fund for purchase, are being withdrawn from the local stock market.

According to the Korea Financial Investment Association on the 6th, investor deposits amounted to only 45.215 trillion won as of the 3rd. This is a loss of more than 13 trillion won (22.6%) compared to 58.199 trillion won on July 27, and the lowest level since 44.16 trillion won recorded on January 20.

Investor deposits are funds that investors have entrusted to securities firms and others to buy stocks and others. It can be put into the stock market at any time and is also called the stock market waiting fund. The amount of transactions itself has decreased over the same period.

The stock market transaction amount, which averaged over 14 trillion won per day in July, fell to 7.4864 trillion won in November. The same goes for the KOSDAQ market. The KOSDAQ market transaction, which exceeded KRW 12 trillion a day between July and August, halved to KRW 6.3 trillion this month.

This summer, the KOSPI and KOSDAQ maintained a new loan balance of around KRW 10 trillion, respectively, but the total balance of credit loans in the local stock market stood at KRW 16.799 trillion as of the 1st of this month.

 

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