Last year has been quite about foreigners running out the door, while domestic institutions have been buying. And if you want to see the scale, let’s invert the FII figure and track them together: FIIs sold over 26,000 cr. worth of cash securities, which is about $5 billion. Tweet

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The Nifty was the worst of everything in 2011. I will not need to say anything after you see these:   And BRIC: And just us in Asia: Yes, we’ve all gone down this year, but the Nifty underperformed everyone else for most of the year. May 2012 be relatively less screwed up. Tweet

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And to continue with the 2011InCharts theme, we have the market snapshot since the highs of 2008: (Click for larger pic) We’re at a 16.75 P/E and near recent lows – and below both long-term moving averages. Sectors in 2011: Rea; estate was destroyed by over half; infrastructure by 39%. Banks and Midcaps were down [...]

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Remember in 2007 how they would tell you that the markets would return great money over five years? Well, you could have gotten better returns in a 3.5% savings account, it turns out. (All returns are annualized) The 1 year return is -25%. The 3 year return is 16.5% after the huge dip in 2008; [...]

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The great monthly chart shows Nifty and Sensex Monthly Returns since, well, since a long long time. December, despite historically being a great month, went down -4.3%. That means we have had 9 losing months in the year – the only three positive months were March (+9%), June (+1.6%) and October (+7.8%). It has been [...]

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