Foreign investors offloaded RM1.59 billion in local equities on Bursa Malaysia last week in tandem with most Asian markets.

Foreign funds offloaded RM1.59b in local equities last week, highest in four years, says MIDF

Foreign selling of Malaysian equities has hit RM1.21 billion year-to-date as of last week, after the outflow stretched for a sixth consecutive week, with a weekly outflow of RM336 million.

Foreign selling of Malaysian equities hit RM1.2b year-to-date — MIDF

Foreign selling of Malaysian equities extended for a fifth week, with a 39% higher outflow of RM435.1 million last week, from RM313.8 million the prior week.

In its weekly fund flow on Monday (April 1), MIDF Research said the three-day net buying streak by the foreigners ended last Monday (March 25), amounting to RM13.7 million.

Foreign selling of Malaysian equities rose 39% to RM435.1m last week, says MIDF

Foreign selling of Malaysian equities extended for a fourth week, albeit 24% lower at RM313.8 million last week, from RM415.1 million the prior week.

In its weekly fund flow report on Monday (March 25), MIDF Research said foreign funds were net sellers from last Monday (March 18) to last Wednesday, totalling RM757.5 million, and net bought RM443.7 million last Thursday and last Friday following improved sentiments after the Federal Open Market Committee meeting with three rate cuts still in the pipeline.

Foreign selling of Malaysian equities slowed 24% to RM313.8m last week, says MIDF

Foreign selling of Malaysian equities moderated to RM415.1 million last week, from RM1.51 billion the prior week.

In its weekly fund flow report on Monday, MIDF Research said foreign funds only net bought RM46.5m last Tuesday, but were net sellers for the rest of the week.

Foreign selling of M'sian equities moderated to RM415m last week, says MIDF

Local institutions’ net buying of Malaysian equities more than tripled to RM1.42 billion last week, from RM443.5 million in the previous week, according to MIDF Research.

Local institutions more than tripled net buying of equities to RM1.42b last week — MIDF

Foreign buying of Malaysian equities snapped last week with a net disposal of RM503 million last week, the highest outflow in 19 weeks, from a net inflow of RM786.1 million the prior week.

Foreign buying of Malaysian equities snapped with RM503m outflow last week, says MIDF

Foreign buying of Malaysian equities more than doubled to RM786.1 million last week from RM352.9 million the prior week.

Foreign buying of Malaysian equities more than doubled to RM786.1m last week — MIDF

Foreign buying of Malaysian equities extended for a fourth week to RM352.9 million last week, a tad lower than the RM400.7 million the prior week.

Foreign buying of M'sian equities extends to fourth week but down to RM350m, says MIDF

Foreign buying of Malaysian equities rose to RM400.7 million last week from RM131.8 million the prior week, marking the third consecutive week of net purchases.

Foreign buying of M'sian equities tripled to RM400m last week, says MIDF

Foreign buying of Malaysian equity extended last week but dropped to RM131.8 million from RM267.7 million the prior week, according to MIDF Research.

Foreign buying of Malaysian equity dropped 49% to RM131.8m last week — MIDF Research

Foreign investors returned as net buyers on Bursa Malaysia, contributing to a net foreign inflow of RM267.7 million last week after disposing of local equities worth RM66.3 million in the prior week during a shortened trading week in conjunction with the Thaipusam holiday on Thursday.

Foreign funds return to Bursa with RM267.7m inflow, says MIDF

Foreign selling of Malaysian equities narrowed to RM66.3 million last week, from RM93.1 million the prior week.

In its weekly fund flow report on Monday, MIDF Research said this was due to net selling last Wednesday and Thursday.

Foreign selling of Malaysian equities narrowed to RM66.3m last week, says MIDF

Foreign investors continued to be net buyers of domestic equities on Bursa Malaysia, with a total of RM524.9 million in the first week of 2024, up from RM165.3 million in the final trading week of 2023.

Foreign funds bought RM524.9 mil of local equity in first week of 2024, says MIDF

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