Japanese retail investors buy $5.9 billion of equities in record week

Japanese individual investors bought $5.9 billion of Japanese equities in the week ended June 26, the largest weekly total on record. The buying came as investors bought into weakness, while foreign funds moved in the opposite direction and sold $7.7 billion of Japanese stocks, the biggest weekly outflow since the comparison point cited in the source. The divergence highlights a sharp split between domestic retail demand and overseas institutional positioning during the period.