FPI sell-off continues for 9-month, pulled out equities worth Rs 50,203 crore in June

Jul 2, 2022

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NEW DELHI: Overseas portfolio buyers (FPIs) have pulled out Rs 50,203 crore value of equities from India within the month of June, based on the most recent Nationwide Securities Depository information.
FPIs have been persistently promoting equities within the Indian markets for the previous nine-to-ten months as a result of varied causes, together with tightening of financial coverage, rising present account deficit on account of depreciation of rupee, rising greenback and bond yields within the US.
FPIs sometimes most popular superior economies in occasions of sharp volatility and uncertainty within the total monetary markets.
To date in 2022, they bought equities value Rs 217,619 crore, NSDL information confirmed. Throughout the identical interval, Sensex and Nifty declined over 10 per cent every.
“This huge capital outflow has considerably contributed to the depreciation in INR which breached 79 to the greenback lately. The relentless FPI promoting must be seen within the context of a steadily rising greenback and bond yields in US,” mentioned VK Vijayakumar, chief funding strategist at Geojit Monetary Companies.
“FPIs are promoting extra in nations with rising present account deficits like India as a result of the currencies of such nations are weak to additional depreciation. In the direction of the top of June FPI promoting has been displaying a declining development.”
This development can be halted solely when the greenback stabilises and US bond yields decline, Vijayakumar added.



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