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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (7065)	2/5/2004 7:52:36 PM
From: russwinter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

Looks like Joe and Martha Public were a bit spooked by the action this week. Domestic fund inflows were down to $2.6 billion (averaged $4.25 billion to domestic prior three weeks). Pulled the plug on about $1.6 billion in junk funds as well. Flows: Feb 4 Independent Data on Fund Flows & Holdings www.amgdata.com Equity funds report net cash inflows totaling $3.8 billion for the week ended February 4. Net investor inflows are now coming into equity funds at a rate of $7.2 billion per week (as measured over four weeks), the heaviest rate since March, 2000; Domestic Equity funds report 69% of the net inflows ($2.6 bil); International Equity funds report inflows to all Emerging and Developed regions except Latin America and Europe; Real Estate fund inflows accelerate to $308 million, the heaviest since January 1997; Taxable Bond funds report net cash outflows of -$829 million with High Yield Corporate Bond funds reporting outflows totaling -$1.6 billion, the largest since 8/13/03; Government Bond funds investing in Treasuries only report inflows of $262 million with iShares Lehman TIPS reporting inflows of $103 million; Money Market funds report outflows totaling -$17.3 billion; Municipal Bond funds report inflows of $139 million.