Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) invested ₹12,000 crore in the Indian equity markets between September 1-16, data with depositories showed. This comes after FPIs turned net buyers for first time in July after nine straight months of net outflows, selling ₹2.46 lakh crore from Indian equities between October 2021-June 2022. They had invested ₹51,200 crore in August 2022 in Indian equities.