Nasdaq’s Friedman Says Returns Are Driving Flows Into US Markets

Companies from around the world remain focused on American markets, driven by the money they’re getting out of the US, Nasdaq Inc. Chief Executive Officer Adena Friedman said.

“The investment firms are obligated to find the best returns,” Friedman said Wednesday in a Bloomberg Television interview from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. There’s been a $3 trillion increase in equity flows into the US from foreign investors in the past year, she said. “We just have to continue to drive those outsize returns within our economy to continue the flows coming in.”