Foreign Institutional Investors Pump In A Week - June 09, 2009

The net investment made by the Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) on Friday stood at Rs 831.95 crore in the domestic stock market that took their total inflow to over Rs 2,000 crore during the week. The FIIs were the gross purchasers of shares worth Rs 4,022.61 crore, while the gross sales by them valued at Rs 3,190.66 crore, resulting in a net buy of Rs 831.95 crore, as per the provisional data available with the BSE.

During the week, the value of shares bought by the overseas investors was worth Rs 20,895.30 crore, while they sold equities worth Rs 18,879.50 crore, which resulted in a net inflow of Rs 2,015.80 crore in the Indian stock market, as per the latest data available with SEBI.

However, the domestic institutional investors, during the trade, booked profit and sold shares worth Rs 480.13 crore.

However, a similar trend was witnessed among proprietors as well as non- resident Indians (NRIs) and they sold stocks in total worth Rs 98.56 crore.

External Debt Increases $ 10.3bn In Q3

New Delhi: The country''s external debt increased to $ 201.4 billion as on December 31, 2007, an increase of $ 10.3 billion over the quarter. The increase in debt was mainly fetched about by external commercial borrowing and short-term debt. Valuation change on account of depreciation of US dollar vis-a-vis major international currency and Indian rupee accounted for $ 1.1 billion of the increase during the quarter. For the quarter ended December 31, 2007, long term debt increased by $ 6.3 billion to $ 166.2 billion and short-term debt by $ 4 billion to $ 35.2 billion over the quarter. Amongst the components of long-term debt, commercial borrowing increased by $ 4.9 billion (9.4 per cent) to $ 57 billion. While NRI deposits fell by 1.5 per cent ($ 0.6 billion) to $ 43 billion, multilateral debt, bilateral debt and export credit increased marginally to touch $ 37.9 billion, $ 17.3 billion and $ 8.9 billion, respectively, at end-December 2007.