Explained: Why foreign investors are reducing domestic stock holdings

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Foreign investors have significantly reduced their holdings of Indian stocks in recent days, driven by disappointing earnings from key companies and ongoing concerns about geopolitical tensions, including the Israel-Hamas conflict, and the potential for higher interest rates in the United States...

Overseas funds sold off $768.4 million worth of Indian shares in a single day last Thursday, marking the largest one-day outflow since June 2022, reported Bloomberg News...

Shrikant Chouhan, an analyst with Kotak Securities Ltd told the publication that a combination of geopolitical tensions and mixed second-quarter earnings in India has left investors feeling uncertain about the near-term prospects of domestic markets..

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