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FPI Sep equity SE net ~₹(45,537) Cr — NSDL month-end + Thu open
NSDL through 30 Sep: FPI equity SE net ~₹(45,537) Cr for September; Wed alone ₹(10,743) Cr. Primary-market equity net stayed positive. Index levels into Thu open are indicative.
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Month-end flows + Thu open watch (1 Oct 2026 early IST): NSDL Daily Trends in FPI Investments — reporting through 30-Sep-2026 — show a red September on the equity stock-exchange route, with Wed 30 the heaviest single session in the month’s table as summed by this desk.
Hard prints — NSDL primary (Daily Trends table on Monthly report page):
| Cut | Colour |
|---|---|
| Wed 30 Sep — Equity / Stock Exchange | Gross purchases ₹23,587.38 Cr · sales ₹34,330.37 Cr · net ₹(10,742.99) Cr (~$1,118.68 Mn at Rs.96.0321) |
| Wed 30 Sep — Equity / Primary market & others | Net +₹544.74 Cr |
| Wed 30 Sep — Total (all asset classes) | Net ₹(12,813.76) Cr |
| Tue 29 Sep — Equity / Stock Exchange | Net ₹(5,538.32) Cr (already noted on Wed Morning Wire overnight colour) |
| September equity SE net (desk sum of 21 NSDL sessions) | About ₹(45,536.89) Cr |
| September equity primary+others net (same 21 sessions) | About +₹9,676.33 Cr |
| September equity subtotal SE+PM (desk sum) | About ₹(35,860.56) Cr |
NSDL page: https://www.fpi.nsdl.co.in/web/Reports/Monthly.aspx — “Daily Trends in FPI Investments on 30-Sep-2026”. Desk summed the published Equity / Stock Exchange and Equity / Primary market & others Net Investment (Rs. Crore) rows for each September reporting date on that table — not a third-party monthly digest.
Wed index colour (soft-flag — Yahoo Finance exchange-linked regularMarketPrice for ^NSEI / ^BSESN early Thu IST; NSE equity-stockIndices API and BSE PublicIssue API Access Denied from this box; Yahoo daily bar close for 30 Sep still null at desk pull):
| Index | Soft print |
|---|---|
| Nifty 50 | ~22,620.45 |
| BSE Sensex | ~72,480.29 |
| Nifty Aug 31 close (Yahoo daily bar) | ~24,080.40 → Sep change vs that bar ~−6.1% into the Wed soft print |
Re-check live https://www.nseindia.com and https://www.bseindia.com index quote pages after the cash open before treating any Yahoo figure as final exchange EOD. This desk does not invent a “worst month in X years” ranking without a primary historical table.
Thu open watch: Soft-flag — early IST before cash open. Parallel IPO process desk: Moneyview listing day.
Takeaway: September’s FPI story on NSDL is secondary-market equity selling with a still-positive primary-market equity offset — do not collapse SE and primary into one headline without the split.
Analysis
Why lead with NSDL, not a secondary monthly wrap
Capital Chronicle already filed a mid-month FPI colour piece using a CDSL-cited cut through 18 Sep. Month-end needs a primary close of the book. NSDL’s Daily Trends table publishes session-by-session Equity / Stock Exchange and Primary market & others nets through 30 Sep 2026 — that is the cut used here.
Read the split, not only the SE red
Three layers sit in the same NSDL month:
- Equity stock exchange — desk sum ~₹(45,537) Cr across 21 September reporting dates; Wed 30 alone ~₹(10,743) Cr
- Equity primary market & others — desk sum ~+₹9,676 Cr (IPO / primary colour can run while cash-market selling is red)
- All-asset total on Wed 30 — ₹(12,813.76) Cr (equity + debt buckets + hybrid + MF/AIF rows on the same daily card)
A red SE month and a green primary month can coexist. Headlines that say “FPIs abandoned India” without the primary offset overstate the cash-market print; headlines that say “FPIs are buying IPOs so secondary selling does not matter” ignore the SE magnitude.
Heaviest SE sessions in the NSDL September table (desk sort)
| Date | Equity SE net (₹ Cr) |
|---|---|
| 30 Sep | (10,742.99) |
| 07 Sep | (6,713.45) |
| 01 Sep | (6,139.56) |
| 29 Sep | (5,538.32) |
| 25 Sep | (4,617.61) |
Index soft-flag into Thu open
Yahoo’s exchange-linked regularMarketPrice prints for Nifty (22,620.45) and Sensex (72,480.29) align with the Wed close colour widely discussed overnight — but this desk could not pull a saved NSE/BSE official HTML/API EOD card (Access Denied). Yahoo’s own daily bar for 30 Sep still showed null close at the early-Thu pull while regularMarketPrice carried the soft print. Treat Thu as open-watch, not a locked open call. No support/resistance prophecy.
Soft spots (do not flatten)
- Desk sums of NSDL daily rows are arithmetic on the published table — prefer NSDL’s own monthly aggregate if/when the site publishes a locked month total that differs
- Yahoo index prints are soft-flagged, not official exchange EOD HTML
- No “worst September since …” ranking without a primary multi-year index table
- Primary-market FPI buying does not cancel SE selling one-for-one in portfolio terms
- No politics; not investment advice
What to watch next
- Live NSE/BSE index opens once the cash session starts
- NSDL / custodian revisions to late-September daily rows
- IPO list-day colour today: Moneyview BSE+NSE list-watch
Sources
- NSDL FPI Monthly / Daily Trends report page — https://www.fpi.nsdl.co.in/web/Reports/Monthly.aspx — Daily Trends in FPI Investments on 30-Sep-2026 (Equity Stock Exchange purchases/sales/net; Primary market & others; all-asset total; conversion rate Rs.96.0321; prior September session rows used for desk monthly sums)
- Yahoo Finance exchange-linked chart meta for ^NSEI / ^BSESN (soft-flag Wed
regularMarketPriceand Aug 31 Nifty daily close — not a substitute for NSE/BSE official EOD) - Capital Chronicle prior flow colour: /story/fpi-september-outflows-crude-dollar · parallel IPO desk /story/moneyview-ipo-listing-day-october-1
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