On July 17, SK Hynix declined 3.22% in regular trading, trading at $159.49/share, with turnover of $2.979 billion.

On the news front, the Bank of Korea announced a 25-basis-point rate hike to 2.75% the previous day, marking its first increase in over three years. Simultaneously, Korea's Financial Services Commission suspended the listing of new single-stock leveraged ETF products targeting Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, and raised the minimum margin requirement from 10 million to 30 million Korean won. The regulatory tightening triggered forced deleveraging across leveraged products linked to the stock, amplifying selling pressure.

The broader memory chip sector has endured consecutive sessions of heavy selling, with SK Hynix having already plunged over 13% in the prior trading day. Sector-wide negative momentum from peers including Micron, SanDisk, and Western Digital remained unresolved, compounding downward pressure on the stock.

SK Hynix is one of the world's largest memory semiconductor companies, engaged in the design, manufacturing, and sales of advanced memory semiconductors used across data center servers, smartphones, and consumer electronics.

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