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Retail investors exit US stock funds, look elsewhere -Lipper
Reuters: Financials
Thu, 14 Feb 2013
By Sam Forgione NEW YORK, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Investors in U.S.-based funds gave $2.4 billion to stock mutual funds in the latest week, the fifth consecutive week of inflows, but all the cash was placed into international equities, data from Thomson Reuters' Lipper service showed on Thursday. Mutual ...
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