Foreign portfolio investors continued to remain net sellers of Indian equities for the ninth straight session on Tuesday as they net offloaded stocks worth approximately Rs 3,405.8 crore.
Domestic institutional investors stayed net buyers for the 19th straight session as they mopped up equities worth Rs 4,851.4 crore, according to provisional data from the National Stock Exchange. In the previous day, the FPIs had offloaded equities worth Rs 4,665.8 crore.
In February, the FPIs net offloaded equities worth Rs 34,574 crore, according to the National Securities Depository Ltd.'s data. This was preceded by net selling of Rs 78,027 crore in January. In 2025 so far, they have net sold equities worth Rs 1.29 lakh crore, the NSDL data showed.
The benchmark equity indices ended Tuesday's session marking the longest losing streak in 29 years. The auto, IT and FMCG sectors declined the most.
The NSE Nifty 50 ended 36.65 points or 0.17%, lower at 22,086.2, while the BSE Sensex closed 96.01 points or 0.13%, lower at 72,989.9.
Infosys, RIL, Bharti Airtel, Bajaj Auto, and HCL Technologies, along with others, weighed on the index the most.
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