21.   For the industry as a whole, however, such funds have seen net inflows since May.

22.   Fund companies said early indications are that stock fund net inflows will be even lower this month.

23.   Funds that invest in state and national municipal bonds, which for most of this year have recorded net outflows, recorded net inflows in November.

24.   Houston-based Aim Management Group Inc. reported lower net inflows in the first three quarters of this year.

25.   In May, for the first time in five years, there was a net inflow into Japanese mutual funds.

26.   In contrast, bond funds have recorded slight net inflows and money market funds saw a modest outflow.

27.   In practice, this means that they almost never sell, since they usually have net inflows, not outflows.

28.   In the middle of last month, however, the sector began to record net inflows of cash and that has continued ever since.

29.   International bond funds recorded slight outflows last month, after two months of net inflows, their first such months in more than a year.

30.   International stock funds attracted net inflows for a second straight week despite continued turmoil in the Southeast Asian markets, Trim Tabs reported.