Foreigners sell off Indian stocks as fund managers focus on China

Portfolio investors have divested a record net $8.4 billion already this month

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Foreign portfolio investors have sold a net $8.4 billion already this month, the highest amount recorded since 2002. © Reuters

(Reuters) -- Foreign investors are on track to sell a record amount in Indian equities in October in absolute terms, as fund managers diverted their focus from richly valued local equities to China in hopes that Beijing's recent stimulus may boost its ailing economy.

Foreign portfolio investors have sold a net amount of $8.4 billion so far this month, surpassing the previous record outflow of $8.35 billion, recorded in March 2020 -- the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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