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Japanese Retail Investors Bought Record $5.9 Billion in Equities Week Ended June 26
Domestic investors purchased the largest weekly total of Japanese stocks on record while foreign funds recorded their largest weekly outflow since March. The purchases followed two prior weeks of net retail selling.
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Japanese retail investors bought a record $5.9 billion of domestic equities in the week ended June 26, according to @KobeissiLetter. Foreign funds sold $7.7 billion during the same period, the largest weekly outflow since March. The retail purchases reversed two prior weeks in which domestic investors sold a combined $6.0 billion.
Stocks tied to artificial intelligence and semiconductors posted the largest declines, with SoftBank, Kioxia, and Furukawa Electric each falling at least 12 percent.
Despite the weekly pullback, the Nikkei 225 rose 37 percent in the second quarter of 2026, its strongest quarterly gain on record. The advance was driven by shares of companies linked to artificial intelligence. Retail buying during market dips has emerged as a pattern across multiple global markets, @KobeissiLetter reported.
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