FIIs net buy shares worth Rs 1831 crore, DIIs net buy Rs 5723 crore on December 19

For the year so far, FIIs have been net sellers of shares worth Rs 2.78 lakh crore, while DIIs have net bought shares worth Rs 7.57 lakh crore.

Foreign investors (FIIs/FPIs) continued to be net buyers on December 19, buying Rs 1831 crore worth of Indian equities on Thursday. At the same time, domestic institutional investors (DIIs) net bought shares worth Rs 5723 crore, according to provisional exchange data.

During the trading session, DIIs purchased shares worth Rs 12,376 crore and sold shares worth Rs 9,675 crore. In contrast, FIIs bought shares worth Rs 11,442 crore but sold shares totalling Rs 10,847 crore.

For the year so far, FIIs have been net sellers of shares worth Rs 2.78 lakh crore, while DIIs have net bought shares worth Rs 7.57 lakh crore.

At close, the Sensex was up 447.55 points or 0.53 percent at 84,929.36, and the Nifty was up 150.85 points or 0.58 percent at 25,966.40.

Biggest Nifty gainers were Shriram Finance, Max Healthcare, Bharat Electronics, Power Grid Corp, Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles, while losers included HCL Technologies, Adani Enterprises, Hindalco, JSW Steel, Kotak Mahindra Bank.

All the sectoral indices ended in the green with auto, pharma, oil & gas, realty, telecom, healthcare rose 0.5-1 percent.