Year-to-date, FPIs have withdrawn Rs 1.2 lakh crore, whereas DIIs have infused Rs 3.4 lakh crore into the market.
On Friday, they net sold shares worth Rs 2,519 crore, while domestic institutional investors stepped in with net purchases of Rs 3,759 crore.
As of April 8, 2025, DIIs held a net long position of 79,153 contracts in index futures, marking an all-time high. This surge surpasses previous highs observed during significant market events
Retail investors have possibly become net sellers in the cash market on a direct basis after being perennial buyers, said Kotak Institutional Equities.
Speaking to Moneycontrol, Das said, Kotak Private will continue to target clients with $1 million and above, and will continue to focus on this high-value segment, as there is massive potential to capitalise on
After turning net buyers of Indian stocks on 18 March for the first time in a month, FIIs have actively purchased in four of the last five sessions.
Today, FII resumed their selling after turning back net buyers for the first time in a month in the last session.
The Sensex and Nifty plunged nearly 2 percent on February 28, dragged down by a broad-based sell-off as fears of a full-blown global trade war and a slowing U.S. economy unsettled investors. The rout wiped out Rs 8.8 lakh crore in market capitalization.
In the current month till date, four IPOs — Swiggy, Sagility India, ACME Solar Holdings, and Niva Bupa Health Insurance — have collectively raised around Rs 18,534 crore. FIIs, however, have contributed only Rs 2,900 crore by way of bids, as per NSDL data.
Equity markets would remain closed on Friday for Guru Nanak Jayanti.
DIIs bought Rs 19,919 crore worth of shares and sold shares worth Rs 17,228 crore. Meanwhile, FIIs purchased shares worth Rs 27,036 crore and offloaded equities worth Rs 23,777 crore during the trading session on August 29.
And DIIs took it all, with Rs 9,000 crore worth purchases in equities.
According to provisional data from the exchanges, FIIs bought Rs 15,273 crore and sold Rs 14,847 crore.
Foreign investors had turned bearish on market ahead of exit polls, in sharp contrast to their positioning in the past two elections.
The turnover of the derivative contracts has plunged by almost 46 percent in May from the record turnover of $82 billion registered in April. In May, till date, the turnover has been pegged at $44.24 billion on the NSE International Exchange’s index in GIFT City, Gandhinagar.
Arora argued for easier capital-gains tax regime for foreign investors, even doing away with it entirely for both foreign and domestic investors, while Mantri called that ask "narrow and self-serving".
The expectation of the incumbent government returning to power and ensuring political continuity has led to an optimistic market sentiment.
India and Mauritius continue to make efforts to combat tax avoidance, this time by amending their Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) with a new Principal Purpose Test (PPT). This seeks to ensure that only genuine investments benefit from treaty provisions, rather than those solely for tax avoidance purposes.
The IT department on April 12 said that the protocol facilitating the amendments in the tax treaty is yet to be ratified and notified under the Income Tax Act, and queries, if any, will be addressed as and when that happens.
The FOMC is expecting a longer road ahead in the fight against inflation
The inflows came following a modest investment of Rs 1,539 crore in February and an outflow of Rs 25,743 crore in January, data with the depositories snowed.
AMFI advisory to its members to moderate inflows into small cap and midcap schemes, RBI's crackdown on NBFCs and ED raids on entities linked to Hari Shankar Tibrewala have all come together to build a perfect storm
FIIs have net sold around $2.4 billion worth of shares, so far, this year despite India's strong macroeconomic fundamentals and corporate earnings. A clutch of factors are at play. Read on
FPIs shed Rs 24,700 crore in Indian equities due to rising US bond yields, yet invested Rs 17,120 crore in debt markets this month.
The announcement by JP Morgan Chase & Co. in September that it will add Indian government bonds to its benchmark emerging market index from June next year has influenced the inflow in the country’s bond markets in the past few months.