Funds are pouring into the stock market! Global stock funds attracted the highest amount of money in a single week in 15 weeks, with emerging markets and technology sectors receiving the most attention.

As of the week ending January 14th, global stock funds recorded the largest weekly net inflow in 15 weeks, with investors driving global stock markets closer to historical highs, continuing last year's upward trend and temporarily ignoring concerns about the global economy and geopolitics. The easing of inflationary pressures in the United States has strengthened market expectations of a rate cut later this year, boosting the stock market. According to data from LSEG Lipper, global stock funds saw a net inflow of $45.59 billion for the week, setting a new record high since the $49.13 billion net inflow on the week ending October 1st of last year. The MSCI Global Index rose by 20.6% last year and hit a new high for the week, with a gain of approximately 2.4% so far this year. A report released by the US Department of Labor on Tuesday showed a moderate increase in core CPI in December, further reinforcing market expectations of a possible rate cut by the Federal Reserve later this year. US stock funds saw an inflow of $28.18 billion for the week, setting a new weekly record high in the past two and a half months and leading in regional fund inflows. European and Asian stock funds saw net inflows of $10.22 billion and $3.89 billion respectively. Technology, industrial, and metals and mining sectors were particularly favored, with net inflows of $2.69 billion, $2.61 billion, and $1.88 billion respectively. Global bond funds saw a net inflow of $19.03 billion for the week, remaining largely unchanged from the previous week's $19.12 billion. Short-term bond funds and Euro-denominated bond funds saw net inflows of $2.23 billion and $2 billion respectively. Loan participation funds and high-yield bond funds also saw net inflows of $1 billion each. Money market funds saw a net outflow of $67.15 billion for the week, with investors partially redeeming a total of $250 billion in net investments over the past two weeks. Gold and precious metals commodity funds saw a net inflow of $1.81 billion, marking the ninth net inflow in the past 10 weeks. Emerging market assets were in demand, with investors pouring $5.73 billion into emerging market stock funds, setting a new weekly record high since October 2014, while also seeing net inflows of $2.09 billion in bond funds. These data cover 28,701 funds in total.