FIIs net buyers in equities at Rs 932.6 cr

DEC 3: The foreign institutional investors FIIs were net buyers in equities to the tune of Rs 932.6 crore for the month of November as a...

DEC 3: The foreign institutional investors FIIs were net buyers in equities to the tune of Rs 932.6 crore for the month of November as against being net sellers in October of Rs 271.70 crore which saw the Sensex remaining below the 4000 mark on most of the trading days.

In November, FIIs were net sellers in debt at Rs 27.2 crore. They were net buyers in debt instruments worth Rs 53.1 crore for October, according to the latest data available with Securities and Exchange Board of India.

FIIs were net buyers on 13 trading days. They were net sellers on remaining days.

November 1, the first trading day of the month, saw FIIs making brisk purchases into equities of Rs 142.9 crore as against sales of Rs 73.1 crore, thus turning into net buyers of Rs. 69.9 crore. The BSE Sensex closed at 3788.53 points netting a gain of 78 points on this day.

Foreign funds were net buyers of Rs 299.6 crore, the highest recorded for the month on November 9. The BSE-30 index dropped by 6.21 points to close at 4022.50 points on the very same day.

FIIs were net sellers of Rs 96.9 crore, the highest for the month on November 20. The Sensex on this day was up at 3926.52, a gain of 20.68 points.

Mutual funds8217; behaviour on BSE for November was at odds with that of FIIs and they were net sellers in equities worth Rs 431.49 crore net buyers of Rs 158.32 cr in Oct. MFs were net buyers in debts at Rs 619.74 crore net buyers of Rs 483.64 cr in Oct.

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For the week ended December 1, FIIs were net buyers of Rs 233.8 crore in equities while they were net sellers in debt at Rs 1.3 crore.

FIIs were net sellers in both equities and debt to the tune of Rs 82.9 crore and Rs 58.1 crore respectively in the previous week ended November 24.

Foreign funds were net sellers in equities on three days 8211; November 27, 29 and 30. They were net buyers on November 28 170.8 crore and December 1 Rs 169 crore.

The BSE Sensitive index gained on four days and saw a decline once of 27.74 points on November 29. First day of the reporting week, November 27, witnessed a rise of 100.86 points in the index and closed at 3969.20 points.

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The BSE-30 index rallied on November 28 54.72 points, Nov 30 1.81 points and December 1 34 points. The index closed at 4031.96 on the last trading day of the week.

The SEBI data on mutual funds purchases/sales for the four days beginning November 27 shows that they were net sellers in equities at Rs 22.67 crore while they were net buyers in debt at Rs 114.36 crore.