European Equity Funds Post Biggest Outflow in Six Months

  • $1.4 billion withdrawn from European stock funds: BofAML
  • U.S. funds end longest streak of outflows since 2004

Stock prices are displayed on a financial data board at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in Frankfurt, Germany, on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014. The dollar dropped amid the biggest global currency swings in a year, oil slipped and Europe stocks advanced after two days of losses.

Photographer: Martin Leissl/Bloomberg
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European equity funds suffered their biggest outflows in 26 weeks as a continuing rally in the euro heightened investor concerns over the region’s exporters.

Investors pulled $1.4 billion from the region’s stock funds, Bank of America Merrill Lynch said in a research report, citing EPFR Global data. That was the second consecutive week of outflows.