The peak weight of the financial stocks in the FPIs portfolio was around 38% in the pre-Covid period. In 2023, FPIs deployed only 16.4% of the total inflow of $21 billion to the financial sector. Mirroring the trend of FPIs, local mutual funds too are paring their exposure to private banks with the sector weight in their AUM dropping to 17.1% in January 2024 from a high of 20.5% in June 2023.
D-Street heats up to 9-month high as West Asia cools
Indian equity markets soared to a nine-month peak, propelled by banking stocks and improved investor confidence due to easing geopolitical tensions in West Asia. The