FPIs offload Indian stocks worth Rs 30,015 crore in first fortnight of March
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Selling of Indian equities by the Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) continued in the first fortnight of March where they sold shares worth Rs 30,015 crore. The total FII selling in this year so far has been at Rs 1,42,616 crore. In January, FPIs sold shares worth Rs 78,027 crore and followed it up with a sell-off amounting to Rs 34,574 crore in February. Friday was a trading holiday on account of Holi festival. On Thursday, the Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) sold Indian equities worth Rs 793 crore while the Domestic Institutional Investors (DIIs) were net buyers at Rs 1,724 crore. Live Events Commenting on the existing FII/FPI trends, expert V K Vijayakumar, who is Chief Investment Strategist at Geojit Financial Services that the intensity of selling is slowly declining as valuations are becoming reasonable though the trend of FII selling in India continued in early March, too. "The FPI outflows from India have been mainly g...