FIIs pump in over Rs 10,000 crore in March

FIIs have pumped in Rs 11,933 crore in past 11 trading sessions post Budget, latest data with NSDL showed.

Overseas investors have pumped in a more than Rs 10,000 crore in Indian equities in the current month till date.

Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) and foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) have pumped in Rs 11,933 crore ($1.77 billion) in past 11 trading sessions post Budget, latest data with National Securities Depository (NSDL) showed.

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According to provisional stock exchange data, they bought an additional net of Rs 745 crore equities on Thursday, taking their net investments to Rs 12,678 crore so far in March.

Date	FIIs net inflow (Rs crore)	Sensex gain (%)
01/03/2016	3017.25	3.38
02/03/2016	1708.23	1.95
03/03/2016	1109.37	1.50
04/03/2016	882.00	0.16
08/03/2016	774.16	0.05
09/03/2016	897.88	0.55
10/03/2016	1177.41	-0.69
11/03/2016	438.58	0.38
14/03/2016	1260.06	0.35
15/03/2016	-27.41	-1.02
16/03/2016	695.89	0.53
17/03/2016	744.49*	-0.02
Source: NSDL/Sebi
*Provisional stock exchange data

At 11:43 AM, the S&P BSE Sensex was trading at 24,752, gaining nearly 8% or 1,804 points post-Budget 2016-17.

A sharp rally in the stock market post the Budget announcement have seen investors recover  more than one-third of their losses made in first one-and-half months of the current calendar year.

Total investor wealth of BSE-listed companies increased by Rs 6.40 lakh crore from Rs 85.83 lakh crore on February 29 to Rs 92.23 lakh crore today. In first two-months of the calendar year 2016, investors in the domestic market had lost Rs 14.55 lakh crore.

The interest rate sensitive sectors such as real estate, banking and automobiles along with capital goods, metals, power and oil & gas index have outperforming the market by gaining more than benchmark indices.

With key bills connected to gas, real estate, mining sectors being passed in Parliament, investors are increasingly becoming assured that the government is back on the reform path, said Anand James, Co Head Technical Research Desk, Geojit BNP Paribas Financial Services.

Name	29/02/2016	LTP	% chg
BHEL	91.10	112.50	23.49
Tata Motors	300.25	365.50	21.73
Adani Ports	196.10	238.15	21.44
Tata Steel	249.10	300.60	20.67
ICICI Bank	190.00	227.90	19.95
GAIL (India)	304.55	361.00	18.54
SBI	158.40	186.95	18.02
Axis Bank	375.25	430.90	14.83
Hero Motocorp	2499.65	2830.80	13.25
Maruti Suzuki	3242.60	3599.45	11.01
Larsen & Toubro	1079.25	1196.50	10.86
TCS	2181.90	2403.50	10.16
ONGC	194.10	213.65	10.07
ITC	295.80	323.25	9.28
Bharti Airtel	316.75	343.30	8.38
Infosys	1083.75	1173.35	8.27
NTPC	119.70	127.35	6.39
HDFC Bank	972.55	1027.60	5.66
Reliance Inds.	966.55	1019.40	5.47
Wipro	519.90	545.50	4.92
HDFC	1061.55	1111.60	4.71
Bajaj Auto	2200.40	2290.40	4.09
Dr Reddy's Labs	3031.25	3104.05	2.40
Asian Paints	848.55	865.50	2.00
Cipla	515.00	523.45	1.64
Hind. Unilever	829.80	841.70	1.43
M&M	1226.80	1209.95	-1.37
Coal India	311.20	295.35	-5.09
Sun Pharma	855.05	804.50	-5.91
Lupin	1752.15	1583.30	-9.64
Sensex	23002.00	24752.00	7.61
LTP : Last traded price at 11:43 AM