Foreign portfolio investors stayed net sellers of Indian equities for the ninth consecutive day on Wednesday as Nifty and Sensex post a nearly 2% decline. The FPIs sold shares worth Rs 6,267 crore worth of stocks.
However, domestic institutional investors stayed net buyers for the 11th day as they bought shares worth Rs 4,966 crore.
In total so far this week FIIs have sold shares worth Rs 17,286 crore while the DIIs have bought equity worth Rs 20,313 crore.
Last week, FPIs offloaded total stake worth Rs 21,832 crore, while the DIIs bought stake worth Rs 32,787 crore. The spike in FPI selling as the tensions in Middle East rose amid Iran war.
The FPIs have sold shares worth Rs 35,962 crore in January. On the other hand, FPIs in February have bought stake worth Rs 22,615 crore, aided by improving risk sentiment in the geoeconomic space. With the current crisis in perspective the FPIs have turned net sellers again this month. So far in March they sold equity worth Rs 39,417 crore, according to data on NSDL.
In 2026 so far, the FPIs have net sold equities worth Rs 52,764 crore.
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In the three-month period ended Dec. 31, 2025, DIIs held about 24.8% of holdings in Nifty 50 stocks, whereas the FPI ownership declined to 24.3%.
Market Recap
Indian equity benchmarks resumed their decline on Wednesday after a brief recovery in the previous session, as rising crude oil prices and weak global cues weighed on sentiment. The NSE Nifty 50 dropped 1.6% to settle below the 23,900 mark, while the BSE Sensex fell more than 1,300 points to close marginally above 76,863.
The decline in benchmark indices erased nearly Rs 3.2 lakh crore in market capitalisation among companies in the Nifty 50 index during the session. The losses marked a resumption of the recent sell-off that has pushed both the Nifty and the Sensex into correction territory after falling more than 10% from their record highs earlier this week.
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