New Delhi, Dec. 12 -- Foreign portfolio investors have resumed their selling streak in December, withdrawing nearly Rs.18,000 crore worth of Indian stocks so far. However, the impact on the benchmark indices has remained limited, as the entire sell-off was fully absorbed by domestic institutional investors (DIIs), who in fact bought nearly twice the amount of stocks that FPIs sold during the same period.

According to NSDL data, FPIs have sold Rs.17,955 crore in domestic equities in the first nine trading sessions of December. In the same period, DIIs, largely comprising mutual funds, have bought equities worth Rs.36,101 crore, taking their total inflow for 2025 to a record Rs.7.44 lakh crore.

The renewed selling by FPIs, after a brief s...