{"id":1990634,"date":"2023-08-04T07:35:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T11:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/optimistic-investors-still-buying-stocks-bofa\/"},"modified":"2023-08-04T07:38:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T11:38:06","slug":"optimistic-investors-still-buying-stocks-bofa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/optimistic-investors-still-buying-stocks-bofa\/","title":{"rendered":"Investors remain optimistic, continue to purchase stocks &#8211; BofA."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Foptimistic-investors-still-buying-stocks-bofa%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1990634&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Investors Continue to Buy Stock and Bond Funds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By Samuel Indyk<\/p>\n<p>LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; According to a report by Bank of America global research, investors are showing\u200c continued interest in stock and bond \u200cfunds. This comes after \u2064the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/optimistic-investors-still-buying-stocks-bofa\/\" title=\"Investors remain optimistic, continue to purchase stocks - BofA.\">recent policy\u200c decisions made<\/a> by the \u200dFederal Reserve and the European Central Bank. <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px;  text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stock Funds\u200c and Technology Funds See \u200cInflows<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bank\u200b of America \u200breports \u200cthat stock funds have seen $4.8 \u200dbillion of inflows. Additionally, technology funds\u200b have experienced\u2064 an acceleration in inflows,\u2062 with \u200bnearly $6\u2064 billion in the last four weeks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Financials Experience Outflows, Bond Funds See Inflows<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Financials, on the other hand, have \u2063seen an outflow \u2063of $1.8 billion, marking the largest outflow from the\u2063 sector in\u200c 12 weeks. Meanwhile, \u200dbond funds have\u2064 seen $7.2 billion of inflows. However, TIPS (Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities) have experienced outflows again after a brief inflow \u2063in the previous week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Investors React to Recent \u200cPolicy Decisions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Reserve recently raised interest rates to their\u2064 highest level in 22 years, but hinted that\u200b they may have peaked. Similarly, the European Central Bank has left the door open to a pause in \u200cits tightening cycle in September. These decisions have influenced investor behavior.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Increased Inflows to Cash Reflect Uncertainty<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Investors have also\u2062 been parking their money in cash, with inflows accelerating in \u200dJuly.\u200d This\u2062 suggests that some investors are \u2062uneasy about a potential\u200c &#8220;soft landing&#8221; scenario. Bank of America\u2062 highlights that inflows have averaged $26\u200b billion per\u200b week in\u200b July, compared to an average of around $4 billion per\u200c week in June.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gold Funds\u200d Experience Outflows, Bull \u200c&#038; Bear Indicator\u2063 Rises<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Outflows from gold funds have reached \u200c$1.2 billion, marking the\u200b tenth\u200d straight \u200dweek of outflows and the longest streak since November last year. Meanwhile, Bank of America&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bank-of-america-warns-of-looming-unemployment-shock\/\" title=\"Bank of America Warns of Looming Unemployment Shock\">bull &#038; bear indicator<\/a>, a measure of market sentiment, has \u2063risen to 4.1 from 4.0. This is its highest\u2063 level \u200dsince the\u200c banking turmoil in March. 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Inflows of $4.8 billion were observed in stock funds, following the recent policy decisions by the Federal Reserve and European Central Bank. EPFR data supports these findings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1990635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[542],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1990634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oann"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1990634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1990635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1990634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1990634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1990634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}