NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Stock mutual funds saw an inflow of $6.4 billion during the week ended Wednesday, compared with an outflow of $1.2 billion during the previous week, according to TrimTabs Investment Research estimates.
For the week ended Wednesday, domestic funds saw an inflow of $5.8 billion, compared with an inflow of $1.7 billion during the previous week. International stock funds saw an inflow of $613 million, compared with an outflow of $2.9 billion during the previous week.
Separately, bond funds posted inflows of $5.5 billion, compared with outflows of $2.8 billion during the previous week. Hybrid funds, which mix stocks and bonds, posted inflows of $1.7 billion, compared with outflows of $877 million during the previous week.
Separately, TrimTabs reports that exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that invest in U.S. stocks posted an inflow of $909 million, versus an outflow of $1.3 billion in the previous week. ETFs that invest in non-U.S. stocks had an inflow of $1.8 billion, versus an outflow of $207 million in the previous week.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.08% during the week ended Wednesday, the Nasdaq Composite Index rose 1.4%, and the Standard & Poor's 500 Index rose 0.4%.
TrimTabs, Santa Rosa, Calif., tracks daily flows of 90 fund families that have about 15% of all equity-fund assets. TrimTabs then regresses those numbers by sector to estimate total flows for all equity funds.
-By Stephen McMillian, Dow Jones Newswires; 201-938-5088; stephen.mcmillian@dowjones.com
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Publié le 08 janvier 2009 Copyright © 2009 Dowjones