masochist eleanor: STOCKS NEWS ASEAN-Inflows seen last week as indexes at new highs

Monday, October 8, 2012

Southeast Asian stock markets saw net foreign purchases last

week as the region's benchmark stock indexes scaled new highs.

Foreign funds to Indonesia's stock market stood at $99

million in the week ended Oct. 5, a fifth straight week, .

Indonesia posted inflows for a fifth straight week. It

reported $99 million inflows for the week ended Oct. 5, adding

to a combined $985 million inflows of the previous four weeks,

Thomson Reuters data showed.

Jakarta's Composite Index posted its second straight

record closing high on Friday, ending at 4,311.31.

The Philippines' net inflow for the period was $34 million.

The Philippine Stock Exchange index closed at a record

high of 5,443.74 on Oct. 4.

Foreign investors pumped in $116 million into Thai stocks

last week as the benchmark SET index ended the week at a

16-year closing high of 1,311.35.

The Malaysian bourse reported $126 million of net foreign

buying last week. Kuala Lumpur's benchmark stock index

hit a record close of 1,661.47 on Oct. 4.

Bucking the trend, the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchang's VN index

saw foreign outflows for a second week running, with net

foreign selling of $4 million.

Foreign flow data for Singapore was not available.

1413 (0713 GMT)

(Reporting by Viparat Jantraprap in Bangkok;

viparat.jantraprapaweth@thomsonreuters.com; Editing by Prateek

Chatterjee)

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