Easy exits hurting Indian stocks: Nirmala Sitharaman explains why equities are underperforming
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- ✓Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said easy liquidity allows investors to exit Indian equities as Nifty and Sensex struggle.
- ✓Foreign investors pulled out nearly $63.6 billion since October 2024.
- ✓"Because of the ease of liquidity, ease of availability, people are even exiting easily," she said.
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman says easy liquidity is allowing investors to exit Indian equities as the Nifty and Sensex struggle to deliver positive returns. Foreign investors have pulled out nearly $63.6 billion since October 2024, erasing nine years of inflows, amid rising US yields, a stronger dollar and AI-driven investment shifts.
With domestic headline equity indices Nifty and Sensex failing to give positive returns in the last 2 years, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has argued that the liquidity paradox that supports trading is also allowing investors to exit quickly.
"Because of the ease of liquidity, ease of availability, people are even exiting easily" from equities, Sitharaman told CNBC in an interview on the sidelines of the IMF-World Bank meetings in Bangkok
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