Short Summary Of Weekly MOF Portfolio Flows
(WorldNews Japan)

Japan`s Ministry of Finance reports portfolio flows on a weekly basis. It provides more timely, even if less detailed, information than contained in the monthly balance of payments data. In the first few months of the year, Japanese investors were net sellers of foreign stocks and bonds. However, this has changed in the second quarter. Japanese investors were net buyers of foreign bonds for seven of the past eight weeks. Last week, they bought JPY1.09 trillion...