(Reuters) -Japanese investors significantly sold foreign stocks in the week to August 2 as major markets retreated on caution over U.S. economic outlook and a new set of trade tariffs.<\/p>\n
According to data from Japan’s Ministry of Finance released on Thursday, domestic investors withdrew a net 752.1 billion yen ($5.10 billion) out of foreign stocks last week, reversing two successive weeks of net purchases.<\/p>\n
The MSCI World Index lost a sharp 2.54% last week, the most in three months, pressured by a disappointing U.S. jobs report for July, and President Donald Trump’s new round of punishing tariffs on dozens of countries.<\/p>\n
Despite the recent withdrawals, overseas stock markets have still received a massive 3.37 trillion yen worth of Japanese investments so far this year compared with a net 915.8 billion yen sales a year ago.<\/p>\n
They also sold foreign long-term bonds of 526.3 billion yen for the second successive week on the run.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Japanese stock markets saw approximately 193 billion yen in weekly net investments from overseas, the smallest amount in six weeks.<\/p>\n
In local bond markets, foreign outflows from long-term bonds cooled to a three-week low of 87.5 billion yen. Short-term bills saw 1.2 trillion yen of net foreign inflows after a net 1.95 trillion yen weekly outflow in the previous week.<\/p>\n
($1 = 147.5800 yen)<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Gaurav Dogra in Bengaluru; Editing by Mrigank Dhaniwala)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Reuters) -Japanese investors significantly sold foreign stocks in the week to August 2 as major markets retreated on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[28,47579,47580,112,11319],"class_list":["post-64427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-business","tag-foreign-stocks","tag-japanese-investments","tag-markets","tag-trade-tariffs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64427","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=64427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}