Japan's stock market set a new record for the largest weekly inflow of foreign capital in nearly six months.

FX168 data on July 11th, foreign investors made massive investments in the Japanese stock market in the week ending July 5th, due to the market rebound and remained optimistic about the steady profit prospects of enterprises in the second half of the year. Data from the exchange shows that foreign investors net bought 916.05 billion yen (5.67 billion U.S. dollars) of Japanese stocks last week, the largest single-week net purchase since January 12th. Investors net bought approximately 732.36 billion yen of Derivatives contracts and approximately 183.69 billion yen of Spot stocks. The Nikkei index hit a historic high on Thursday, breaking through 42,000 points for the first time, and the TOPIX index reached a record high closing at 2929.17 points. In contrast, Ministry of Finance data shows that foreign investors withdrew from the Japanese bond market for the fourth consecutive week, with a net sale of 228.8 billion yen of long-term bonds and a total of 876.9 billion yen of short-term bonds.