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Markets reel from highest weekly fall in 30 months
Mint Mumbai
|December 21, 2024
Bears rip ₹8.75 trillion of investor wealth with FPIs continuing their selling spree
Foreign investors dumped local stocks for a fourth straight day on Friday, causing the bellwether Nifty 50 and Sensex indices to log their biggest weekly fall in 30 months. This, and heavy selling by retail clients, caused investor wealth to plunge by ₹8.75 trillion in a single day.
Indian markets were part of a continuing emerging market selling spree by FPIs (foreign portfolio investors) in favour of low-risk US bonds in the face of rising bond yields and a stronger dollar.
The Nifty and Sensex fell by 1.5% each to 23,587.5 and 78,041.59 points on Friday as FPIs net sold shares worth a provisional ₹3,597.82 crore, which offset the net purchase of ₹1,374.37 crore by domestic institutional investors (DIIs).
The rupee also tested a new low on Friday before recovering to close higher following the Reserve Bank of India's intervention.
With Friday's fall, both the Nifty and Sensex have tumbled below their crucial 200-day simple moving averages (SMA), which underscores the bearish trend amid rising yields.
The 200-day SMA measures the average levels that the Nifty and Sensex have traded at for the past 200 days. The 200 SMA for Nifty lies at 23,834 and for the Sensex at 78,320.76, per Bloomberg.
This story is from the December 21, 2024 edition of Mint Mumbai.
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