Foreign investors sold Rs 152 crore of Indian shares every trading hour in 2025
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Foreign investors have been selling Indian stocks at a pace never seen before in Indian markets. In 2025 so far, FIIs have dumped equities at a rate of nearly Rs 152 crore every trading hour. Yet, this entire shock was absorbed by domestic institutional investors, armed with continuous SIP flows. FIIs have sold more than Rs 2.23 lakh crore worth of Indian equities through the secondary market this year. Spread across the trading calendar, this works out to roughly Rs 900 crore of net selling every trading day, or about Rs 152 crore every hour the market is open. Despite this relentless selling pressure, benchmark indices have remained resilient. December has continued the trend. FIIs have been sellers on all trading days so far this month, offloading close to Rs 15,959 crore through the exchanges. Domestic institutional investors, however, have stepped in again, buying shares worth around Rs 39,965 crore during the same period. The sharp ...