Mumbai, Sept 14: The Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) were net purchasers in equities at Rs 995.1 crore (US $ 216.6 million) while behaving in contrast in debt to net outflows of Rs 78.5 crore (USD 17.1 million) during the trading week ended September 12. Mutual funds (mfs) netted sales in equities at Rs 251.73 crore while remaining net buyers in debt instruments at Rs 339.91 crore for the period under review, according to data available with Securities and Exchange Board of India.


FIIs were net buyers in equities for four trading days and netted their highest inflows for the week at Rs 395.3 crore (usd 86 mn) on September 10 followed by rs 292.7 crore (usd 63.7 mn) on the first day of the week.

They recorded net sales of Rs 88.3 crore (USD 19.2 mn) on September 12.

On the debt front, FIIs registered net outflows of Rs 99.3 crore (usd 21.6 mn) and Rs 21.5 crore (usd 4.7 mn) on September 9 and 12 respectively.

MFs were net sellers in equities at Rs 138.25 crore, Rs 9.32 crore and Rs 25.06 crore on September 9, 10 and 8 respectively.
In the debt market, MFs netted inflows of Rs 140.76 crore (September 8), Rs 115.01 crore (September 9) and Rs 75.9 crore (September 11).

The BSE benchmark 30-share index reacted negatively after early strong rally to the high at 4473.57, and ended the week at 4305.91 as against last weekend's close of 4369.17, a net fall of 63.26 points.
Bureau Report