LONDON (Reuters) – Emerging market stocks saw record inflows in the week to Wednesday, Barclays said citing data from EPFR, led by record inflows into Chinese equities. Chinese equities saw $39 billion of inflows, Barclays said, made up of a $30 billion inflow from domestic investors and a $9 billion inflow from foreign investors, also […]
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Chinese equities see record weekly inflows, Japan has biggest outflow in 20 years – Barclays
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LONDON (Reuters) – Emerging market stocks saw record inflows in the week to Wednesday, Barclays said citing data from EPFR, led by record inflows into Chinese equities.
Chinese equities saw $39 billion of inflows, Barclays said, made up of a $30 billion inflow from domestic investors and a $9 billion inflow from foreign investors, also both records.
That accounted for most of the $41 billion inflow into emerging market stocks.
Investors shunned Japan with Japanese stocks seeing outflows of $9 billion, their largest weekly outflow in 20 years, Barclays said.
(Reporting by Samuel Indykm editing by Alun John)