Investors sold $2 billion worth of short- and medium-term bonds finds. Government bond funds drew inflows of $1.19 billion. Meanwhile, inflation protected bond funds posted outflows worth $1.95 billion, their largest in 22 months.
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Global money market funds witnessed outflows worth $21.72 billion after seeing some small purchases in the previous week.
Among commodities, precious metal funds attracted inflows of $426 million in a third straight week of net buying, although energy faced a fourth straight weekly outflow, amounting to $308 million.
An analysis of 24,000 emerging market funds showed bond funds received $360 million in net buying after three consecutive weeks of outflows, while equity funds pulled in $2.31 billion worth of inflows.
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(Reporting by Gaurav Dogra and Patturaja Murugaboopathy in Bengaluru; Editing by William Maclean)
