Japanese investors pit foreign stocks on US economic concerns, tariff tensions

Japanese investors sold significantly in foreign stocks in 2 August Gust a week as the US economic outlook and a new set of trade tariffs were backed in large markets.

According to data from the Japanese finance ministry on Thursday, domestic investors made a net purchase of net 2 75.5 billion yen (10.5 billion) from foreign stocks last week, against two consecutive weeks of net purchase.

Last week, the MSCI World Index was down 2.54%, which was a July disappointing U.S. Jobs was the highest in three months by the report, and in the new round of punishing Tariffs on dozens of President Donald Trump’s countries.

Despite the recent withdrawal, foreign stock markets have received a large amount of 37.3737 trillion yen in large quantities of 37.3737 trillion yen so far this year, compared to net 915.8 billion yen sales a year ago.

They also sold 526.3 billion yen’s foreign long -term bonds in the second successive week.

Meanwhile, the Japanese stock markets saw about 193 billion yen in weekly net investments from abroad, the lowest amount in six weeks.

In local bond markets, foreign outflows from long -term bonds cool to a three -week low .5 87..5 billion yen. The short -term bill saw a 1.2 trillion yen net foreign flow after a net 1.95 trillion yen weekly flow in the past week. ($ 1 = 147.5800 yen).