The LA Times reports that after a one-week respite, individual investors pulled a net $3.2 billion from U.S. stock funds and $610 million from foreign funds in the week ended Aug. 24, according to the Investment Company Institute.The outflow was nowhere near the frenetic selling seen in early August, when the stock market plunged amid worries about the economy. Fund owners dumped a net $34 billion in U.S. equity funds in the first two weeks of August.
Still, the renewed selling pressure underscored the skittishness among small investors about the market. They had added a net $1.3 billion into U.S. equity funds in the previous week...
Find out more at http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-mutual-fund-outflow-20110901,0,6975695.story
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