Overseas investors sold a net Rs 100 million ($2.2 million) of Indian shares yesterday, reducing this year’s record inflows in equities to Rs 1.3 lakh crore, the Securities and Exchange Board of India said.
Investors bought Rs 3,080 crore of shares and sold Rs 3,090 crore, data from the market regulator showed. They bought a net Rs 322 crore of bonds, increasing total debt purchases this year to Rs 45,950 crore.
Stock purchases this year include Rs 38,400 crore from the primary market. Foreign investors have placed Rs 4.44 lakh crore in equities and Rs 78,210 crore in bonds since they were allowed into the country in 1993, Thursday’s report showed.
