FIIs invest Rs 8,000 crore in domestic stock and debt market

18 Jul 2011 Evaluate

The foreign institutional investors (FIIs) infused around Rs 8,000 crore or $2 billion in the domestic stock and debt market so far this month, experts have the opinion that investment from FIIs will continue to increase in the coming months.

As per the information available with market regulator SEBI, the FIIs, in July made gross investment of around Rs 43,994 crore in equities and debt securities, however, they also sold shares and bonds worth around 36, 195 crore, resulting of net investment of Rs 7,799 crore. Experts say, this increase in FII flows is due to moderation in crude oil prices and inflation. FIIs were quite optimistic on the equity market; they invested around Rs 6,475 crore in equities and Rs 1,324 crore in securities market.

Investors had avoided the stocks markets in emerging countries such as India in the first six months of the 2011 as these countries battled inflation. Besides, high interest rate was also considered as a risk to these countries. However, foreign investors were interested in the debt market during the same period of time, FII invested around Rs 9,948 crore in debt market whereas they invested around Rs 2,670 crore in stock markets. Market experts believe that, FIIs will remain bullish in the remaining six months of the current financial year, and investment from FIIs is expected to increase.

During 2010, FIIs purchased stocks and bonds worth around Rs 10 lakh crore, in the same period, Foreign investors also sold shares and bonds worth around Rs 7,80,000 crore, which resulted into net investment of Rs 1.75 lakh crore for the year, which is a record. During the same year, the number of FIIs registered with SEBI marginally increased to 1,728 as of July 2011 from 1,718 at the end of 2010. 

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