Foreign investors continued to sell equities on Bursa Malaysia for the fourth consecutive week, coming in at a smaller
amount of –RM259.8m. They net sold every day last week and have been net selling for seven straight trading days.
The heaviest net outflow was –RM104.4m on Monday, followed by –RM67.6m on Thursday. Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday
saw net outflows of –RM17.2m, -RM46.6m and –RM24.1m respectively.
The top three sectors that recorded net foreign inflows were Plantation (RM72.9m), Healthcare (RM64.0m), and Property
(RM29.0m), while the top three sectors that registered net foreign outflows were Transportation & Logistics (-RM120.2m),
Utilities (-RM98.5m), and Consumer Products & Services (-RM79.2m).
As opposed to foreign investors, local institutions were net buyers of Malaysian equities for the fourth consecutive week,
net buying RM207.7m last week. They net sold a minor –RM1.4m on Tuesday but were net buyers for the rest of the wee.
Local retail investors were net buyers last week at RM52.1m. They only net sold –RM26.8m on Wednesday but were net buyers for the remainder of the week.
The average daily trading volume (ADTV) showed declines across all investor classes. Foreign investors registered clines
of –8.8% while local institutional investors and local retail investors saw declines of –3.1% and –3.3% respectively.
