FIIs withdrew Rs 20,000 crore during Lok Sabha elections and Q4 earnings amid stress from rising bond yields, Iran-Israel war, and India-Mauritius tax tweak. Impact on oil prices and US Fed rate cuts outlook are also significant factors.
While some selling may have been the result of FPIs paring stake to comply with the new regulations, analysts say the big falls over the past few sessions were triggered by stock-specific negative news and overvaluation
“When the FIIs come back into India, see, they are coming from a super safe market like the US to an emerging country risk oriented market. They will always tend to buy the safety aspects of the market, that is number one. Number two, if you see the composition of FII flows, passive flows are dominating. So, passive flows tend to buy the index.”
NSDL data shows that FIIs have bought Indian stocks worth about $1 billion last month in which Nifty ended 5.6% higher. The buying by FIIs, DIIs as well as ever-bullish retail investors have led to an increase in the total market capitalisation of all BSE-listed stocks to $4 trillion and catapulted the index to all-time high levels