U.S. equity fund inflows at three week high on chipmaker demand

Reuters

Fri, May 15, 2026 astatine 9:05 AM CDT 1 min read

May 15 (Reuters) - U.S. equity money inflows surged to a three-week precocious successful the week to ‌May 13 connected optimism implicit a beardown net play ‌and robust gross guidelines by chipmakers, contempt a buildup successful inflationary ​pressure.

According to LSEG Lipper data, investors pumped up a nett $22.37 cardinal into U.S. equity funds successful their largest play nett acquisition since $27.97 cardinal of inflows successful the week to ‌April 22.

Strong income ⁠forecasts by chipmakers Advanced Micro Devices and Microchip Technology past week bolstered capitalist sentiments and ⁠pushed the S&P 500 to a grounds precocious of 7,517.12 connected Thursday.

LSEG information covering 455 S&P 500 constituents showed ​about 83% ​of companies bushed analysts' mean ​profit estimates for the ‌first quarter.

Inflows to U.S. large-cap funds of $17.06 cardinal were the largest successful six weeks. Mid-cap and small-cap funds, however, had nett outflows of $1.25 cardinal and $2.53 billion, respectively.

The exertion assemblage gained grounds play nett investments of $8.51 billion, portion ‌financials faced an outflow of $1.37 billion.

Bond ​fund inflows surged to a ​three-month precocious of $12.9 cardinal ​in the week.

U.S. short-to-intermediate investment-grade funds, wide ‌domestic taxable fixed income funds ​and, short-to-intermediate authorities ​and treasury funds segments drew important nett investments of $4.02 billion, $3.08 cardinal and $2.14 billion, respectively.

At the aforesaid time, ​investors divested a ‌net $4.4 cardinal of wealth marketplace funds aft their $113.53 ​billion nett acquisition a week ago.

(Reporting by Gaurav ​Dogra, Editing by Nick Zieminski)