Mumbai, Jan 25: With the capital market witnessing an extremely high volatility, the foreign institutional investors (FIIs) were net buyers in equities at Rs 467.3 crore (US dollar 102.4 million) but stayed away from debt instruments to net an outflow of Rs 18.2 crore (USD four million) during the trading week ended January 23. Mutual funds (MFs) were also active in equities and netted inflows of Rs 424.77 crore while remaining net sellers were in debt at Rs 11.62 crore during the period under review, according to the data available with Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) here.
FIIs were net buyers for four trading days and registered their highest net purchases of the week at Rs 344 crore (USD 75.5 mn) on January 21. They were net sellers to the tune of Rs 86.9 crore (USD 19.1 mn) on the first day of the week.
In the debt market, the foreign funds netted outflows of Rs 20 crore (USD 4.4 mn) on January 23 and net purchases of Rs 1.8 crore (USD 0.4 mn) on January 19.
MFs were net purchasers on all the days and netted inflow of Rs 131.73 crore and Rs 126.19 crore on January 21 and 22, respectively.
In the debt market, MFs were net sellers to the extent of Rs 112.63 crore on January 22 and net buyers at Rs 61.16 crore on the previous day.
The BSE benchmark 30-share index ended the week with a fall of 129.55 points or 2.18 per cent at 5816.64 as against last weekend's close of 5946.16. It fluctuated wildly in a range between 6130.09 and 5567.68 during the week. Bureau Report