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Institutional Clients Buy Stocks For First Time In 9 Weeks: BAML

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Last week, institutional clients turned net buyers of U.S. stocks for the first time in nine weeks, though private clients sold the rally for the fourth consecutive week, reports BofAML. After tracking BofAML equity client flow trends, Jill Carey Hall and Savita Subramanian of Bank of America Merrill Lynch published their Nov, 4 research report highlighting that small caps continued to witness negative flow trends.

Record inflows into Consumer Staples stocks

Hall and Subramanian point out that last week (10/26 to 10/30), BofAML clients were net buyers of U.S. stocks for the first time in four weeks. Though hedge funds and institutional clients had been net sellers for the last three weeks and last eight weeks respectively, they led the net buying....

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Mani is a Senior Financial Consultant. He has worked in Senior Management role in large banking, financial and information technology organizations. He has provided solutions for major banking and securities firms across the globe in the area of retail, corporate and investment banking. He holds MBA (Finance) and Professional Management Accounting Qualifications. His hobbies are tracking global financial developments and watching sports