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News & Current Events May 7, 2026 at 2:23 AM

Korea Surpasses Canada as World’s Seventh-Largest Stock Market

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gym_fun May 7, 2026 +28
The semi sector is insane. First Taiwan surpassed UK & Canada. Now South Korea!
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self-fix2 May 7, 2026 +15
Korea, US, and Taiwan are the Western countries that are the most well-positioned to ride the AI boom. Korea is also the only country outside China that pretty much manufactures everything so they have the data to win physical AI.
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KimJongSoros May 7, 2026 +23
Surprised it didn’t happen sooner tbh. Canadian public markets have long been just a sea of ETFs and a bunch of mining companies.
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jacnel45 May 7, 2026 +8
Don’t forget the banks!
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Dragonasaur May 7, 2026 +3
ETFs, banks, same slow and steady concept
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LowParticular3152 May 7, 2026 +4
Canada is a case study in monopolizing markets.
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No_Method5989 May 7, 2026 +7
Nice! 71%. We Canadians need to catch up :o
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self-fix2 May 7, 2026 +5
Thats YTD. It's almost 200% over the past 1 year window.
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Keeltoodeep May 7, 2026 +2
Canada hasn’t grown GDP per capita in over 10 years. I don’t see them ever catching up without mass migration.
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External-Plastic-154 May 7, 2026 +8
Semiconductor
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self-fix2 May 7, 2026 +19
Not just. - Korean defense stocks have risen almost 1000% since 2024 - Hyundai/Kia has Boston Dynamics now and they're bullish about automating every sector of manufacturing. They are also a good traditional play cause they are pretty much the only legacy car maker in the West that's holding up against Chinese EVs - Shipbuilding is also on fire, and the Iran War has made large carriers even more valuable. - Then there's electric power stocks that are booming thanks to AI data centers.
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Inner-Thought9665 May 7, 2026 +3
Well done Korea 🎉
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AirMinute7060 May 7, 2026 -15
Canada is less and less relevant. Trudeau’s legacy.
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Still_Interview6360 May 7, 2026 +3
Truth. Downvotes from Katy Perry fans
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[deleted] May 7, 2026 -19
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False-Yak9404 May 7, 2026 +40
Korea has nearly 10 million more people. What are you on about ?
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SlyOutlaw May 7, 2026 +20
Just wait till we tell him that most of Canada is uninhabitable
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cheeeze50 May 7, 2026 +3
If you live in Canada you are probably aware that the global economy has been sinking for a while and cost of life is beyond crazy
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False-Yak9404 May 7, 2026 +8
I do. By the cost of living being crazy do you mean the post Covid inflation spike that every country experienced? Not sure it totally agree with the whole economy sinking, I got a pretty good job that wasn’t too hard to get but I guess maybe that just me?
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Keeltoodeep May 7, 2026 +1
Canada has been in a lost decade for over 10 years now. Zero GDP per capita growth and has only grown nominally from immigration.
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cheeeze50 May 7, 2026 -6
Yes cost of living increased everywhere but particularly in Canada. Our economy has been sinking so much pre COVID too I'm surprised we are still a G7 member National debt is increasing The fragile Canadian economy is based on real estate trading and values. Unless mass investment is made into different economic sectors and become successes the Canadians wallet has been stretched at a maximum limit and can't borrow any more. The next generation won't be able to afford a nice place to raise a family Liberals are investing in petrol instead of green and future technologies to please the west It's going nowhere right now
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Swamy_ji May 7, 2026 +1
This guy is the only one who understands
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xriddle May 7, 2026 -2
Canada is roughly 100 times larger than South Korea by total area if we are talking actual size.
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godofsmallerthings May 7, 2026 +1
How much of it is habitable?
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maybelying May 7, 2026 +9
All of it, if you're brave enough
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Naive_Ad7923 May 7, 2026 +1
Ask the Inuits
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godofsmallerthings May 7, 2026 -1
Didn't ask you
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Great68 May 7, 2026 +5
Way to fail on demography AND geography.
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godofsmallerthings May 7, 2026 +1
Sometimes people just throws stats which are carefully padded. I wonder how uninitiated they must be.
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DeAndre_ROY_Ayton May 7, 2026 +1
Canada is 2nd in the world in size it gets leapfrogged by everyone but Russia lmao what does size have to do with anything anyways
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bloop7676 May 7, 2026 +7
A lot of people just see Canada on paper but don't know how it's actually laid out. We're effectively like a small country in a strip along the border, and most of what's north of that isn't built up at all.  People see the size on the map and assume it's going to be comparable to countries like the US or Japan, but it's realistically more like Italy, the UK, or indeed South Korea.
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delleh May 7, 2026 +1
More like Australia
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