D-Street's $489 billion rally is winning back global funds
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Global funds are returning to Indian stocks, signaling that this month’s rally in Asia’s best-performing equity market likely has more legs. Having largely been sellers in the months since Indian benchmarks scaled records in September, foreigners are coming back amid growing optimism that a domestically-driven economy will make the South Asian nation withstand the global trade war better than most peers. A sharp advance from this month’s low already boosted India’s market’s value by $489 billion to nearly $4.4 trillion at the end of last week. Overseas funds bought $589 million of Indian shares on a net basis last Friday, marking an eighth straight day of purchases, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The buying streak means they have now invested about $680 million in April. At one point, they were sellers of more than $3 billion for the month. “Foreigners are coming back as India is perceived to be relatively better placed than oth...