With just a session left for September to end, so far Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) have been net buyers of Indian equities at Rs 57,359 crore. The total investments by them now stand at Rs 1,00,245 crore on the year-to-date basis and is highest in nine months. In August, FPIs bought domestic shares worth Rs … Read more
Despite Indian benchmark indices Nifty50 and Sensex gaining over 4% in June, Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) have remained unenthusiastic, offloading Indian equities worth Rs 3,064 crore so far this month. In 2024 year-to-date, FPIs have sold stocks worth Rs 26,428 crore. This trend continued from May and April, when FPIs sold shares worth Rs 34,257 … Read more
Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) continued their selling spree on Thursday, offloading Indian equities worth Rs 6,867.72 crore even as domestic buyers remained net buyers at Rs 3,718.38 crore. Notwithstanding the sell-off by foreign investors, Indian headline indices on Thursday ended in the green for the second day in a row aided by strong gains in … Read more
Ahead of the much-anticipated outcome of the Lok Sabha election results, the FII long-short ratio stands at a multi-year high of 87% shorts in the index futures, coupled with heavy selling in the cash market. On the other hand, retail investors are holding highly leveraged long positions. “Both these factors are a bit scary. That … Read more
Sunil Koul, Executive Director (Asia Pacific Portfolio Strategy, Global Macro Research), Goldman Sachs, says: “We have a barbell approach within the market. We have bets which we like from a more tactical value side of things, so we are overweight China A-share markets, we are overweight some of the North Asian markets which includes Japan … Read more
Indian market is expected to consolidate on Wednesday tracking mixed global cues. The Nifty future closed negative with losses of 0.78% at 22375 levels on Tuesday. India VIX was up by 2.71% from 16.60 to 17.05 levels. On the weekly options front, the maximum Call OI is placed at 22500 and then towards 22800 strikes … Read more
Mumbai: After betting big on India in the last two years, foreign institutional investors (FIIs) turned their back on Dalal Street, which remains one of the best-performing markets in the world in 2022. Indian equities witnessed record outflows to the tune of $24 billion from FIIs year-to-date, eventually washing out net inflows of a little … Read more
Led by the rising popularity of mutual funds, domestic institutional investor (DIIs) flows have outpaced foreign institutional investor (FII) flows over the last seven years, shows a report. “DII ownership of Indian equities increased to 14.2 per cent in June 2022 from 10.9 per cent in June 2012, while FII ownership diminished to 18.4 per … Read more
Mumbai: Domestic institutional investors (DIIs) led by mutual funds and insurers have pumped ₹2.16 lakh crore into Indian equities so far in 2022, helping cushion the impact of the ₹2 lakh crore plus outflow from foreign funds on the stock market. Unabated flows from retail investors into equity mutual fund schemes have been the main … Read more
This week Indian bourses shed some blood as bears tightened their grip. Valuations of numerous companies are bulging while fundamentals trail behind. Interestingly, in majority of the companies that steeply corrected recently in spite of any pessimistic event, FIIs and DIIs have trimmed their holdings in the past quarter. This behavior corresponds to the Dow … Read more