Investors pledged their allegiance to mutual funds in the month of April, albeit not to American funds. Reuters reports that according to ICI research, in April investors put $18.3 billion into stock funds compared with $8.1 billion in March. Only $1.7 billion of that number went into U.S stock funds, the rest, some $16.6 billion, went into world equity funds that invest mostly overseas.  

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