{"id":480423,"date":"2026-02-20T19:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/480423\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T19:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:15:11","slug":"global-equity-funds-attract-biggest-inflow-in-five-weeks-as-concerns-around-ai-ease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/480423\/","title":{"rendered":"Global equity funds attract biggest inflow in five weeks as concerns around AI ease"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Feb 20 (Reuters) &#8211; Global equity funds received their strongest inflows in five weeks in the seven days to February 18, as easing concerns over \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:artificial intelligence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence<\/a> stocks and investor rotation into other sectors supported demand, while \u200crenewed hopes for Federal Reserve rate cuts lifted sentiment toward U.S. growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Investors poured $36.33 billion into global equity \u200bfunds during the week, marking the strongest weekly inflow since January 14, LSEG Lipper data showed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">U.S. consumer price data released last Friday showed inflation rose 2.4% year-on-year in January, close to expectations of a 2.5% increase, reinforcing market bets on two Federal Reserve rate \u200ccuts this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Leading regional inflows, \u2060European funds attracted $17.22 billion, broadly in line with the previous week\u2019s $17.68 billion, supported by the STOXX 600 index climbing to a record \u2060high.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">U.S. funds recorded net inflows of $11.77 billion after a $1.48 billion outflow the previous week, while Asian funds drew a net $3.8 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Among sectoral funds, industrials, metals and mining, and technology were \u200bin demand, \u200battracting weekly net inflows of $1.82 billion, $818 million \u200band $696 million, respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Global bond funds recorded \u200ca seventh straight week of net inflows, attracting $19.79 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Short-term bond funds drew $5 billion, the highest weekly inflow since December 24. Euro-denominated bond funds and corporate bond funds also attracted net purchases of $2.54 billion and $2.35 billion, respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Money market funds received $7.05 billion, extending inflows to a fourth consecutive week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Gold and precious metals funds, however, saw net outflows of $1.86 \u200cbillion, snapping a five-week streak of inflows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">In emerging \u200bmarkets, equity funds attracted $8.1 billion, lifting year-to-date inflows to $56.52 \u200bbillion. Bond funds also drew $1.94 \u200bbillion in a second straight week of net purchases, data for \u200c28,639 funds showed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">&#8220;While the recent underperformance of \u200bU.S. tech stocks relative \u200bto emerging markets echoes the eve of the dotcom bust, we think the AI rally still has a bit further to run,&#8221; said Elias Hilmer, \u200bmarket economist at Capital Economics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">&#8220;That \u200csaid, if the AI bubble bursts, we think equities in EMs would \u200bhold up better than in the U.S.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Reporting by Gaurav Dogra and Patturaja \u200bMurugaboopathy in Bengaluru; Editing by Harikrishnan Nair)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb 20 (Reuters) &#8211; Global equity funds received their strongest inflows in five weeks in the seven days&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,221806,221807,81672,221805,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-480423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-bond-funds","12":"tag-equity-funds","13":"tag-money-market-funds","14":"tag-precious-metals-funds","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}