The recent foreign capital inflows reverse months of heavy selling that saw overseas investors dump tens of billions of dollars in Indian equities due to geopolitical conflicts, elevated crude oil prices, and rising bond yields. Market analysts, including strategists at BlackRock, attribute the prior outflows to international pressures rather than domestic economic weakness. In October, this dynamic helped the Nifty IT index surge by 17% while broader Asian and American indices experienced steep corrections.
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Global fund managers are utilizing Indian banking and IT shares as an anti-AI trade to he…: Global fund managers are utilizing Indian banking and IT shares as an anti-AI trade to hedge against American tech volatility.
Domestic smaller-cap equities failed to mirror large-cap gains, with the BSE SmallCap 250…: Domestic smaller-cap equities failed to mirror large-cap gains, with the BSE SmallCap 250 losing 6.3% and the BSE Midcap 150 dropping 4%.
Investment firm BlackRock continues to hold an overweight stance on India, viewing histor…: Investment firm BlackRock continues to hold an overweight stance on India, viewing historical selling as a reaction to external macroeconomic headwinds.
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"Indian large-cap stocks, particularly banks and IT companies, are being viewed as an anti-AI trade, attracting model-driven flows rather than a broad-based return of long-only foreign investors, said Ritesh Jain, founder of Pinetree Macro.
"There is a shift in global investment flows because of signs of a deflation in the artificial intelligence (AI) trade," said Jain. "When the AI trade is doing well, money moves from the rest of the world into the US as investors buy dollars to invest in US AI stocks. When they sell these stocks, they also move out of the US dollar."
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