VIX Jumps 12% as Crude Shock Drives FII Exodus at Six-Month Lows
Foreign investors sold ₹5,353 crore in a single session, hammering large-caps while the broader tape barely held neutral. Every sector closed in the red.
Nifty closed at 23,064.9 — a six-month low — with all eleven sectors finishing negative. India VIX surged 12% to 13.64, its sharpest single-session spike in over a week. The headline trigger: a crude oil shock compounded by an Iran standoff that pushed the rupee toward 96 to the dollar and wiped out roughly ₹17 lakh crore of investor wealth over the past month.
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