Foreign investors pulled out more than 4,000 crore rupees from the Indian capital markets so far in January this year.

This comes following a collective net inflow of over 17,000 crore rupees in the capital markets both equity and debt by Foreign Portfolio Investors, FPIs, during November and December last year.

According to data available with the depositories, FPIs withdrew a net amount of 3,987 crore rupees from equities and 53 crore rupees from the debt market, taking the total outflow to 4,040 crore rupees.