Thursday, November 10, 2005

EPFR report


Japan fund still attractive while US and global equity funds repel investors

Japan funds continued to see strong inflows in the latest week of Emerging Portfolio Fund Research (EPFR) data while emerging markets equity funds staunched the bleeding of three straight weeks of outflows and investors abandoned US and global equity funds. Emerging market bond funds suffered their first week of decisive outflows since the first quarter of this year while investors continued to flee high yield bond funds.
 
Could someone point me to links where i can understand the bond market, yields, and their impact on equities and the general economy. Basically, i need to study the bond market and how its impacting the equities and other financial markets like Currency mkt etc
 

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