{"id":226769,"date":"2025-10-20T11:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T11:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/226769\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T11:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T11:36:07","slug":"canadian-capital-inflow-slows-to-net-6-4-billion-as-equities-lose-favour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/226769\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian capital inflow slows to net $6.4 billion as equities lose favour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although the US index has seen an increase of more than 20% since the \u2018liberation day\u2019 turmoil in April, Stephen Lingard, SVP and co-head of multi-asset at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wealthprofessional.ca\/company-profiles\/ci-global-asset-management\/221402\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CI Global Asset Management<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wealthprofessional.ca\/news\/industry-news\/why-one-multi-asset-head-sees-reasons-to-underweight-us-stocks\/390506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told Wealth Professional that there are some reasons to be underweight US equities<\/a> and more constructive on other markets.<\/p>\n<p>The breakdown shows foreign acquisition of Canadian bonds of $31.2 billion in August, largely private corporate bonds denominated in US dollars and euros, with federal and provincial government bonds contributing too.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, domestic investors purchased $19.5 billion of foreign securities, continuing a robust trend from earlier in the year. The bulk of that acquisition centred on foreign equities with $21.2 billion in foreign shares, including $17.0 billion into US equities and $4.2 billion into non-US equities (the latter the highest since March 2024).<\/p>\n<p>But Canadian investors reduced holdings of foreign debt securities by $1.7 billion. Notably, US government bond holdings fell by $7.9 billion in August.<\/p>\n<p>The monthly release covers portfolio transactions in equity and investment fund shares, bonds and money-market instruments for both Canadian and foreign issues, excluding transactions between affiliated enterprises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although the US index has seen an increase of more than 20% since the \u2018liberation day\u2019 turmoil in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,13742,22783,44,50],"class_list":["post-226769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-investors","tag-foreign-investors","tag-news","tag-statistics-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}