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Local Investors Sell Foreign Bonds & Stocks

JAPAN DATA

Japan weekly investment flows showed further inflows into local stocks from offshore investors. ¥181.7bn came into local stocks, following last week's +¥195bn last week, see the table below. Offshore flows into local bonds were stronger at ¥705bn, which follows last week's ¥485bn in inflows. The flows to end July 7 was the strongest since mid-May.

  • In terms of Japan outbound flows, we saw -¥951bn in terms foreign stock selling, and -¥950.5bn in terms of foreign bonds. The selling of foreign stocks was the largest since mid-April.

Table 1: Japan Weekly Investment Flows

Billion YenWeek ending July 7 Prior Week
Foreign Buying Japan Stocks 181.7195
Foreign Buying Japan Bonds 705.0484.7
Japan Buying Foreign Bonds-950.51252.7
Japan Buying Foreign Stocks-951.0-158.9

Source: MNI - Market News/Bloomberg

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