Foreign investors bought a significant amount of Japanese stocks in the week to November 29, snapping up technology stocks on bets of a Federal Reserve rate cut and banking shares on the expectations of a potential rate hike by the Bank of Japan. They bought a net 655.6 billion yen ($4.22 billion) worth of local stocks during the week, reversing their 351.5 billion yen weekly net sales the prior week, Japan's Ministry of Finance showed on Thursday.

Artificial intelligence-linked shares Advantest and Tokyo Electron gained 12.34% and 5.37%, while banking stocks Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group and Yamaguchi Financial Group surged 5.6% and 13.44%, respectively, last week. Japanese stocks have so far attracted approximately 7.22 trillion yen worth of foreign inflows this quarter as Prime Minis

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