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Overseas investors have pulled out more than Rs 9,500 crore from the Indian stock markets since the beginning of the month on global growth worries and sharp dip in oil prices.
Overseas investors pulled out close to Rs 3,500 crore from the Indian equity markets in the New Year on concerns of renewed worries over the health of Chinese economy and sharp fall in crude oil prices.
Foreign funds also stayed away from Indian equities in 2015 and invested just Rs 17,806 crore (USD 3.2 billion) in stock markets last year. In comparison, FPIs had been investing around Rs 1 lakh crore each into equities in the preceeding three years.
The net investments by foreign investors into Indian debt markets since the beginning of 2014 have reached USD 17 billion (Rs 1.2 lakh crore), while the same for equities stand USD 13 billion (over Rs 78,000 crore)-- taking the total to USD 30 billion (Rs 1.8 lakh crore).
Foreign investors have poured almost Rs 11,000 crore into the Indian debt market so far this month after being net sellers of bonds in 2013.
Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) were gross buyers of debt securities worth Rs 8,155 crore and sellers of bonds to the tune of Rs 4,609 crore till January 10, resulting in a net inflow of Rs 3,546 crore (USD 572 million), according to Sebi data.
Kotak Institutional Equities expects to see rupee at 62 to the dollar. A further fall is imperative because Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has very few options to stem the rupee fall.
Overseas investors have pulled out more than Rs 7,600 crore ($ 1.35 billion) from the Indian debt market in the first week of this month owing to weakness in the rupee.
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