FIIs yank Rs 10,000 crore from Indian stocks before Trump tariff bomb detonates. Are you prepared?
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The party was just getting started, and now the biggest guests have left. Foreign institutional investors (FIIs), after fueling a sharp 6% rally in Nifty through March, have dumped a staggering Rs 10,255 crore worth of Indian stocks over the past two trading sessions. The timing? Just ahead of US President Donald Trump’s highly anticipated Liberation Day tariff announcements tonight. Markets are jittery, and the question looms: Are you fully invested? “The element of uncertainty regarding reciprocal tariffs is expected to decrease with the tariff declaration today. However, considering Trump’s flip-flops on tariffs in the past, the uncertainty is likely to persist beyond today,” says Dr. VK Vijayakumar, Chief Investment Strategist at Geojit Investments. End-of-year considerations likely played a role in FIIs turning aggressive buyers toward the last leg of March, he notes. Their buying spree triggered short-covering, which in turn drove I...