Foreign portfolio investors remained net sellers for the eighth straight session on Wednesday, net offloading Rs 4,358 crore worth of shares, according to the provisional data from the National Stock Exchange.
Domestic institutional investors remained net buyers for the third day as they bought equities worth Rs 2,976.7 crore.
On Tuesday, the FPIs sold equities Rs 4,994.2 crore. In March, the overseas investors had net offloaded equities worth Rs 3,973 crore, according to the National Securities Depository Ltd.'s data.
In February, they had net offloaded equities worth Rs 34,574 crore. 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 1.43 lakh crore, the NSDL data showed.
The benchmark equity indices snapped its one day of advance to end in the red on Wednesday after the RBI's monetary policy committee cut the benchmark repo rate by 25 basis points.
The NSE Nifty 50 ended 136.70 points or 0.61% lower at 22,399.15, while the BSE Sensex closed 379.93 points or 0.51% down at 73,847.15.
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