RPT-TABLE-Foreign investors bought Japan stocks last week

Thu Jul 30, 2009 11:14pm EDT

(Repeats story sent on July 30 to fix tabulation)
 TOKYO, July 30 (Reuters) - Foreign investors bought a net
374.2 billion yen ($3.94 billion) of Japanese stocks last week,
capital flows data released by Japan's Ministry of Finance showed
on Thursday.
 Details of net investments were as follows (in billion yen).
 FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN JAPAN: (net)
           stocks           bonds            bills
July 19-25    374.2            -24.3           -460.9
July 12-18     81.2r           -48.9            806.9
 JAPANESE INVESTMENT ABROAD: (a minus sign indicates net
selling and inflow of funds into Japan)
           stocks           bonds            bills
July 19-25     15.4             91.3            -35.0
July 12-18    101.1              3.8r            27.7r
 The MOF's capital flows data can be found in English at:
 here   
 The MOF's portfolio flows data can be found in English at:
 here
 Note:
 - "r" notes revised figure
 - As of January 2005, the ministry changed its calculation
methods for weekly capital flows to match its Balance of Payments
figures and previous data are not directly comparable.
 - Bonds include beneficiary certificates.
 - Figures are based on contracts and are rounded.



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