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Foreign investors mop up Rs 12k crore since Mar 22

Foreign institutional investors were the net sellers to the tune of Rs 691.22 crore in Indian equities for the first time on April 11 in last 15 sessions, as per provisional data available with National Stock Exchange.

April 13, 2011 / 08:20 IST
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Foreign funds net sold Rs 691 crore of shares on April 11, dragging benchmark indices down by around 1%. This is the first time in 15 sessions, that foreign investors have been net sellers, after having mopped up nearly Rs 12,000 crore of shares since March 22. For calendar 2011 till date, they have net bought close to Rs 3300 crore of shares.

Date

FIIs Purchase/Sales

22-Mar-11

313.3

23-Mar-11

393.2

24-Mar-11

345.5

25-Mar-11

1,517.90

28-Mar-11

481.7

29-Mar-11

1,500.40

30-Mar-11

1,043.40

31-Mar-11

N.A.

4-Apr-11

4,087.30

5-Apr-11

1,562.70

6-Apr-11

716.2

7-Apr-11

383.3

8-Apr-11

356.9

11-Apr-11

*(691.22)

* Provisional figure

Sanjiv Patni from Prabhudas Lilladher feels that the FII flows to emerging markets have turned positive again and it will be critical to see how they pan out going forward.
first published: Apr 12, 2011 10:20 am

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