Foreign portfolio investors continued to maintain their buying streak of Indian equities on Tuesday for the fifth straight session as they acquired stocks worth Rs 1,290.43 crore.
Domestic institutional investors turned net sellers after a day's net buying, as they sold equities worth Rs 885.63 crore, according to provisional data from the National Stock Exchange.
In the last trading session on Monday, the FPIs had bought equities worth Rs 1,970.17 crore. So far in April, they have offloaded shares worth Rs 17,036 crore, according to the National Securities Depository Ltd.'s data.
In March, the overseas investors had net offloaded equities worth Rs 3,973 crore, which was significantly lower as compared to the net selling of equities worth Rs 34,574 crore in February. This was preceded by net selling of Rs 78,027 crore in January.
In 2025 so far, the FPIs have net sold equities worth Rs 1.33 lakh crore, the NSDL data showed.
India's benchmark equity indices rose for the sixth session in a row on Tuesday and recorded the best winning streak in nearly a month as sharp gains in financial services stocks supported the rally.
The NSE Nifty 50 ended 41.70 points or 0.17%, higher at 24,167.25 and the BSE Sensex closed 187.09 points or 0.24%, up at 79,595.59.
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