Foreign Institutional Investors were net sellers in equities on Tuesday even as the Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark index, Sensex, ended 13 points up.
FIIs made gross sale of equities worth Rs 1,350.10 crore and gross purchase of Rs 888.69 crore, resulting in a net sale of Rs 461.41 crore.
Domestic institutional investors, however, were net investors in shares worth Rs 306.94 crore, provisional data available on the BSE show.
Brokers’ investments
Among other categories, non-resident Indian entities and proprietors sold shares worth Rs 19.29 crore and 13.98 crore respectively.
Brokers, however, invested in shares worth Rs 93.75 crore for their clients or retail investors. Meanwhile, the country’s premier stock exchange Bombay Stock Exchange’s benchmark 30-scrip Sensitive Index — Sensex, on Monday, ended flat on the first trading session of 2008 as gains in initial hours were eroded by profit booking later.
The Sensex commenced the day slightly higher and rose more than 100 points in first five minutes of trading. It touched the day’s high of 20,394.89 and low of 20,220.46.
