On September 14, Direxion Daily MSCI South Korea Bull 3x Shares fell 15.6% in regular trading, trading at $19.31/share, with turnover of approximately $199 million.

Multiple bearish catalysts converged to hammer Korean equities. OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX AI jointly called for slowing AI development, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirming the company has shelved its IPO plans. The announcement sent Korean memory chip leaders SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics sharply lower, with the KOSPI index dropping over 3%. Storage stocks were particularly hard hit, as the AI slowdown narrative undermined near-term demand expectations for memory chips.

Simultaneously, escalating Middle East tensions drove oil prices higher, pressuring Korea's energy-import-dependent economy. Following the release of U.S. August CPI data, markets priced in roughly a 90% probability of a Federal Reserve rate hike in September, further weighing on export-oriented Korean equities and semiconductor valuations. Foreign investors had already been net sellers of SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics in prior sessions. The ETF's triple-leverage structure significantly amplified the underlying index decline.

The fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in financial instruments providing daily leveraged exposure to the MSCI South Korea Index, covering approximately 85% of the free float-adjusted market capitalization of South Korean issuers. It is non-diversified.

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