After Foreign Investors’ Drumroll, Bulls Put Up a Festival of Might

The Economic Times · ET Bureau · 2026-11-05 22:18 UTC

The Sensex on Thursday notched up its biggest single-day gains since April as overseas funds bought the most into Indian stocks in more than two years.

Foreign institutional investors (FII) bought ₹14,975 crore worth of stock, provisional data on the NSE showed. This was the single-biggest daily buying by overseas funds since September 2024.

The BSE Sensex surged 2,008.61 points, or 2.60%, to close at 79,310.01, while the NSE Nifty climbed 576 points, or 2.40%, to settle at 24,536.60. By points, the Sensex logged its biggest gains since early April, when it began a short-lived recovery.

This was following the start of the Iran war.

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