Foreign investors sold Asian equities at the fastest pace in at least 16 years in the first half of 2026, as a blistering AI-driven rally forced them to trim their biggest winners in South Korea and Taiwan and hunt for laggards at a discount.
Overseas investors pulled a net $137.36 billion from shares across South Korea, Taiwan, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines in the first six months of the year, the fastest six-month outflow in LSEG data going back to 2010.
