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Investment: Five graphics show: This is how 450,000 Germans invested in July

Exclusive data from broker Flatex shows: Three stocks were bought particularly frequently, while investors withdrew a lot of money from an entire industry.

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Investment: Five graphics show: This is how 450,000 Germans invested in July

Düsseldorf – Flatex's online brokerage firm revealed that its 450,000 German customers adjusted their investment positions in July, as per exclusive data provided to Handelsblatt. Among the 200 largest stock positions, 21 exhibited net inflows of over six percent, with shares of a German company leading the charge at 48 percent.

Flatexdegiro analyzed the portfolios of all German customers to reach this conclusion. The findings indicate that stocks continue to dominate as the most common asset, accounting for 45.7 percent of the invested wealth, followed by investments in exchange-traded index funds (ETFs) at 44 percent. While ETFs saw slight gains of 0.4 percent in July, individual stock positions declined by 3.1 percent.

The analysis also highlights that investors demonstrated a strong focus on a particular industry, while another sector registered net outflows of nearly seven percent.

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