Since the Q's debut in March 1999, investors have pumped more than $24 billion into the fund.

Overseas investors have pumped money into manufacturing and the energy sector.

FOR the last year, investors have been pumping more new money into foreign stock funds than into domestic portfolios.

Asian investors, for example, are pumping billions into the UK economy.

The week before, institutional investors pumped $9 billion into the money market funds to wait for interest rates to settle after a jump in commodities.

Since 1990, foreign investors have pumped $5.5 billion in direct investment into this country of 10 million people.

Mr. Kleiman estimates that institutional investors have pumped as much as $10 billion into Russia this year.

Lipper says investors pumped an estimated $380 million into those Asian funds last month, the biggest monthly inflow in more than two years.

Mr. Tokita noted that Japanese investors often pump in money to modernize their acquisitions.

Motivated by expectations of further appreciation, international investors have pumped a large amount of money into the economy.