Foreign investors have pumped in a little over Rs 51,200 crore into the Indian equity markets in August, making it the highest inflow in 20 months, amid improving risk sentiment and stabilisation in oil prices. This comes following a net investment of nearly Rs 5,000 crore by Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) in July, data with depositories showed. FPIs had turned buyers for the first time in July after nine straight months of massive net outflows, which started in October last year. Between October 2021 till June 2022, they withdrew Rs 2.46 lakh crore from the Indian equity markets. India will continue to attract FPI flows this month too, although at a slower pace as compared to August, given continued rate hikes by the US Federal Reserve along with quantitative tightening, said Manish Jeloka, Co-head of Products and Solutions, Sanctum Wealth. Arpit Jain, Joint Managing Director at Arihant Capital Markets, said inflation, dollar prices and interest rate will dictate FPI ...
FPIs had turned net buyers for the first time in July, after nine straight months of massive net outflows, which started in October last year
Between 2011-12 and FY22, the market value of FPI holdings had increased at an annualised rate of 16.5 per cent in local currency terms and a modest 11.5 per cent in US dollar terms
The swing in favour of Indian equities comes after a brutal sell-off where FPIs sold equities worth Rs 2.56 trillion since October 2021
Canada ranks seventh in terms of FPI investments into India, the total being Rs 1.7 trillion as of February 28 this year.
Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) remain uncomfortable with India's valuation premium and have sold about $20 billion since October
India remains among the top five emerging market economies seeing renewed FPI interest. While some see this as bargain buying, sustenance of these inflows holds the key for a firm market rally
Covid concerns, the hawkish turn by central banks to fight inflation, and sustained FPI selling had rattled investors last week
Real transition will begin only in Dec '22 for foreign investors
A red flag gets activated whenever the foreign shareholding is less than 3 per cent of the permissible limit, which in HDFC Bank's case is 74 per cent
The value of the foreign portfolio investors (FPI) holdings in the domestic equities reached USD 592 billion in three months ended June 2021, a surge of 7 per cent from the preceding quarter
Analysts say the decline in ownership is due to underperformance of financial stocks - the biggest overweight sector for FPIs
Strong and sustained retail interest can counter-balance FPI selling; small and midcap may outperform
Markets, Nomura believes, are dealing with three headwinds - the resurgence of Covid-19 cases; inflationary pressure with the rise in commodity prices; and rich valuations
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The investment legroom for FPIs in HDFC Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, and IndusInd Bank has reduced, according to index provider FTSE, which has dropped these stocks from some of its indices
The corporate fundamentals have been improving over the quarter and making many bluechip companies attractive for FPI investors
The pandemic erased more than $18 trillion from global markets over the course of February and March 2020, before a recovery in April and the subsequent months
In L&T Infotech and L&T Technology Services, their stake touched an all-time high level.