"Companies began to feel pressure to get out of South Africa, " says Davis, who edits Global Proxy Watch, a weekly newsletter.

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Emerging market funds and global equity funds also posted weekly inflow records as investors continued the rotation out of bonds and cash and towards equities, a trend that started in earnest in December.

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U.S. economic data due for release Wednesday includes the ADP national employment report, the ISM non-manufacturing report, the weekly DOE energy stocks report and the global services PMI.

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U.S. economic data due for release Wednesday includes the weekly MBA mortgage applications survey, the ADP national employment report, the ISM non-manufacturing report, the weekly DOE energy stocks report and the global services PMI.

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U.S. economic data due for release Tuesday includes the weekly Goldman Sachs and Johnson Redbook retail sales reports and the global services PMI.

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The blue-chip Dow is building on a 788-point surge last week, its biggest weekly percentage gain since mid-July 2009, after central banks infused the global financial system with cheap dollar loans.

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International sales are seasonal, not weekly, fare experts say, and often route-by-route rather than global.

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