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Foreign investors return to Bursa Malaysia after eleven weeks of selling

Net inflows of 640 million ringgit over five sessions. The scale is small; the change of direction is not.

Foreign investors bought a net 640 million ringgit of Malaysian equities over the past week, ending an eleven-week run of outflows that had totalled roughly 4.2 billion ringgit.

In absolute terms the inflow recovers about a seventh of what left. The direction is the point. Foreign flow into Malaysian equities is persistent: it tends to run in the same direction for weeks at a time, which makes a genuine reversal more informative than its size suggests.

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Aisyah Rahman

Southeast Asia correspondent, Kuala Lumpur

Aisyah covers Bursa Malaysia, the ringgit and Malaysian corporate earnings from Kuala Lumpur. She has reported on Southeast Asian markets for nine years and holds an economics degree from Universiti Malaya.

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