The sell-off by the FPIs in March is way more than they pulled out in January and February of Rs 33,303 crore and Rs 35,592 crore, respectively.
April 3, 2022Surging reserves can be a double-edged sword as there is a cost to holding them. High reserves will obviously lead to appreciation of the currency and rise in inflation, because capital inflows that result in high reserves are used to buy domestic currency, thereby expanding the domestic monetary base without a corresponding increase in production, and this causes a rise in inflation.
July 7, 2021This reflects steadfast confidence of foreign investors in the fundamentals of the Indian economy, the Ministry said in a statement.
April 6, 2021For the write off, the process prescribed in the SEBI's operational guidelines has to be complied with.
September 22, 2020The government was at the receiving end of criticism from several quarters due to the existing surcharge structure put in place in the FY20 budget.
September 19, 2020'Fear of further outflow of foreign funds is the main trigger today as the government has made it clear that the tax on the super-rich is here to stay.'
July 19, 2019"Total cumulative investment by FPIs decreased to Rs 248,154 crore as on March 31, 2019 as against Rs 253,653 crore as on March 31, 2018," the survey, tabled in the Parliament by Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, said.
July 4, 2019"The clubbing of investment limit for FPIs should not be done on the basis of beneficial owner (BO) as per PMLA rules," it added.
September 21, 2018In a relief to FPIs, markets regulator Sebi on Tuesday extended the deadline by two months till December for providing a list of beneficial owners, and assured them that issues raised will be looked into by an expert panel.
August 21, 2018Having booked profit from August to December 2017, foreign portfolio investors or FPIs have staged a strong comeback in January virtually taking charge of the bull rally with accelerated flow of liquidity mainly in large cap stocks or those constituting 30-share Sensitive Index of Bombay Stock Exchange and 50-scrip Nifty of National Stock Exchange. These …
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January 24, 2018Markets regulator Sebi on Thursday decided to relax entry norms for foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) willing to invest in the Indian markets. Besides, Sebi would allow listing of security receipts issued by an asset reconstruction company (ARC) on stock exchange platform. This will enhance capital flows into the securitisation industry and particularly be helpful to …
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December 29, 2017The ongoing quarterly results season, along with macro-economic industrial production and exim data points are expected to steer the key equity indices during the upcoming week, market observers opined. According to analysts, global cues, combined with direction of foreign funds' flow and the rupee's movement against the US dollar will also affect investor sentiments. "With …
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August 6, 2017The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 21 June removed restrictions on foreign investments in IDFC. "The foreign shareholding by Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs), Foreign Portfolios Investors (FPIs) in M/s IDFC Limited have gone below the prescribed FII/FPI investment limit," the RBI said in a notification. "Hence, the restrictions placed on the purchase of shares …
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June 22, 2017Nearly 2,100 new foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) have registered with capital markets watchdog Sebi in April-November period of the current fiscal. In the entire last fiscal, a total of 2,900 FPIs had received approval from Sebi. The number of FPIs with Sebi approval rose to 6,406 at the end of November from 4,311 in March-end, …
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February 8, 2017With an aim to deepen capital markets, regulator Sebi is mulling relaxing its norms to permit FPIs to invest in unlisted non-convertible debentures and securitised debt instruments. In a slew of proposed reform measures, the regulator also plans to tighten corporate governance rules on profit-sharing agreements between promoters and private equity funds as part of …
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November 20, 2016