FPI selling accelerates in October; ₹31,000 crore withdrawn in 4 sessions: What’s next for Indian stock market?
A institutional flows development with market-wide reach.
· LiveMint Markets
Foreign portfolio investors withdrew ₹31,282 crore from Indian equities in the first five sessions of October, following heavy September selling.
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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