EEM & EZU Top Weekly Outflows List

A downdraft in retail stocks and some overseas markets didn't stop investors from adding money to U.S.-listed exchange-traded funds this week. In aggregate, $2.6 billion came into ETFs in the week ending Thursday, May 12. Most segments saw net inflows, with the exception of international equity ETFs, which had net outflows of $2.9 billion.

Leading the way were U.S. equity ETFs, which had a net inflow of $2.6 billion thanks largely to the $1.2 billion in creations for the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY | A-97), and the $929 million in creations for the PowerShares QQQ Trust (QQQ | A-67).

At the same time, gold remained in fashion this week, as the SPDR Gold Trust (GLD | A-100) picked up $646 million in inflows, while the VanEck Vecors God Miners ETF (GDX | C-76) picked up $438 million of its own.

On the fixed-income side, the iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF (AGG | A-98) was the biggest winner, with inflows of nearly $400 million.

Meanwhile, as mentioned above, international equity ETFs were the big losers of the week. The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (EEM | B-100) topped the outflows list, with redemptions of $933 million. That was followed by the iShares MSCI Eurozone ETF (EZU | A-84) and the iShares MSCI Japan ETF (EWJ | B-95) with outflows of $709 million and $588 million, respectively.

Another notable loser was the iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (HYG | B-68), with outflows of $435 million.

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Disclaimer: All data is from FactSet, as of 6 a.m. Eastern time the date the article is published. Data is believed to be accurate; however, transient market data is often subject to subsequent revision and correction by the exchanges.