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To: donald sew who wrote (23970)	8/27/1999 8:48:00 AM
From: Benkea	Respond to of 99985

"She mentioned that last week the inflows was about 6 BILLION and this week 1 BILLION." That's a typical intra-day move in AOL alone! $7 bil ain't what it used to be :)

To: donald sew who wrote (23970)	8/27/1999 9:02:00 AM
From: clochard	Respond to of 99985

Donald, its logical that it takes an inflow just to keep the market going sideways. Commissions, spreads, and removed profits must be balanced by inflows. The entire brokerage industry and all the successful traders must be fed with the inflows. Inflows to stock mutual funds doesn't mean anything anyway because its mostly 401k money being parked for "the long run." More and more investors are trading stocks themselves in taxable accounts and IRA's. When they loose money or pay their bills with the profits, it doesn't show up in the statistics. And anyway, when a stock mutual fund looses money, its not counted as an outflow.