Same playbook, different numbers: Why FPI selling may not be the story it looks like
A institutional flows development with market-wide reach.
26 Sept 2026 · Economic Times Markets, ET Stocks
Indian equities extended their losing streak as elevated crude, US Treasury yields, geopolitical risks and FPI selling weighed on sentiment. However, foreign investors continued backing IPOs, selectively buying debt and mid-small caps, suggesting portfolio selectivity rather than a broad withdrawal from Indian markets.
The analysis
This is an Index / institutional flows event. Passive and institutional flows move price independently of fundamentals, and around rebalancing dates they dominate it.
Because the driver here is macro rather than company-specific, the read-through is to index-level positioning rather than to any single name — correlations tend to rise when the whole market faces the same signal.
Market context
- This is a market-wide development — its reach goes beyond any single stock.
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