bull and bear symbols for successful and bad trading are seen in front of the german stock exchange deutsche boerse in frankfurt germany february 12 2019 reuterskai pfaffenbach london march 18 reuters  investors pulled money out of european equities for a fifth week in a row and flocked to us equities as the russian invasion of ukraine weighed on the continents bourses bofa wrote on friday in its weekly report based on epfr data flows out of european equity funds amounted to 32 billion dollars while 32 billion went into us equities the largest amount in five weeks the us investment bank said while central banks across the globe have embarked in tightening monetary policies 149 billion were taken out of bonds the largest outflow since march 2021 inflation shock not over rates shock not over recession shock likely second half of 2022 the banks analysts wrote in a weekly note emerging market debt funds also saw outflows for the tenth consecutive week about 143 billion has left such funds so far this year nearly half the amount that went into such funds in 2021 the us investment banks bull and bear indicator a market signal that combines various data and suggests when to buy or sell stocks ticked lower to 23 in the latest week a reading below 2 is considered as a buy signal