July 19 (Reuters) - Institutional and retail investors bought into equity funds in the week ended July 18, as the European debt crisis remained quiet and companies posted better-than-expected earnings, data from Thomson Reuters' Lipper service showed on Thursday. Equity funds recorded net inflows of $6.089 billion. Of that, $5.697 billion came from net buying of exchange-traded funds, the data showed, a contrast to the net outflows of $2 billion in the previous week. Excluding ETFs,

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