According to LSEG data, investors sold a net $7.82 billion worth of U.S. equity funds during the week, marking a fifth weekly outflow in six weeks.
Last week’s U.S. payroll data revealed ongoing economic strains, sparking a stock sell-off, but Wall Street rebounded on expectations of a significant rate cut in the Federal Reserve meeting next week.
Investors withdrew a substantial $6.91 billion from growth funds last week, the largest weekly outflow since December 2023, while redirecting $4.1 billion into value funds, marking the highest since at least December 2020.
U.S. sectoral funds also saw significant withdrawals totalling $2.16 billion, the most in five weeks, with the financial, tech, and industrial sectors losing $1.75 billion, $1.17 billion, and $582 million, respectively.
Conversely, safe-haven assets like government bond funds and money market funds attracted $3.51 billion and $18.17 billion, respectively.
U.S. bond funds continued their positive trend with $4.94 billion in net inflows for the 15th consecutive week, and domestic taxable fixed income funds gained $1.75 billion following the previous week’s $2 billion in inflows.
Short-to-intermediate government and municipal debt funds also saw significant inflows of $1.28 billion and $1.26 billion, respectively.
Source: Economy - investing.com
