KUALA LUMPUR: The net inflow of foreign funds into the Malaysian equities market leapt to RM1.68bil, nearly four times the amount registered in the prior week.
In the week ended May 16, 2025, Bursa Malaysa saw net buying from foreign investors on every trading day with the highest daily net inflow of RM797.4mil on Monday.
This was in line with the inflow of foreign dollars into Asian markets, which rose to a substantial figure of US$5.15bil, according to MIDF Research data.
The broker said in its weekly fund flow report the foreign buying in the eight key Asian markets it tracks was led by South Korea and Taiwan. Conversely, Thailand the Philippines recorded net foreign outflows.
In Malaysia, the sectors with the leading net foreign inflows were financial services (RM797.2mil), utilities (RM218.6mil) and telecommunications and media (RM179.7mil).
The only two sectors that registered net foreign outflows were energy (RM56.3mil) and REITs (RM3.7mil).
Local institutions - which had been shoring up prices as foreign funds exited the market earlier this year - accelerated their profit-taking to a net outflow of RM1.35bil.
Local retailers were net sellers for a fifth consecutive week, with net outflow rising 13 times to RM330.2mil compared to RM24.8mil in the preceding week.
The average daily trading volume (ADTV) saw a broad-based
increase with local institutions and local retailers trading 50.9% and 31.8% more respectively, while foreign investors had a 42.6% higher participation.
