{"id":17410,"date":"2026-06-06T06:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T01:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/g-secs-rally-as-govt-and-rbi-ease-foreign-investing-rules\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T06:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T01:28:08","slug":"g-secs-rally-as-govt-and-rbi-ease-foreign-investing-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/g-secs-rally-as-govt-and-rbi-ease-foreign-investing-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"G-Secs rally as govt and RBI ease foreign investing rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131542763,imgsize-58630,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/representative-image.jpg\" alt=\"G-Secs rally as govt and RBI ease foreign investing rules\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>MUMBAI: Bonds rallied after govt and <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/rbi\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">RBI<\/a> announced measures to encourage foreign investment in govt securities on Friday. The yields on benchmark 10-year govt securities (G-Secs) softened to 6.94% in early trades, from 6.99% on Thursday, after the govt said foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) would be exempted from long-term capital gains and withholding taxes on interest from G-Secs.<!-- --> Prices of bonds and their yields move in opposite directions.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/> According to Ramkamal Samanta, chief investment officer, Star Union Dai-ichi Life Insurance, abolition of LTCG tax and removal of withholding tax on interest income for FPI investments in G-Secs, along with the inclusion of 15-, 30- and 40-year papers through the Fully Accessible Route (FAR) securities universe with no investment limit are positive for the Indian fixed income market over medium term.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>Until now, FPIs were allowed to invest in 10-year G-Secs under the FAR mechanism. The govt on Friday also lifted the concentration limit and the security-wise limit for investments by FPIs in G-Secs, a release said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>&#8220;The decisions are aimed at attracting more foreign flows through major index inclusion channels,&#8221; Samanta said. &#8220;However, in the near term, the market is likely to be influenced more by global yield movements and domestic inflation dynamics.&#8221;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/>The equity market, however, was upset with the govt decision to liberalise FPI investments in the sovereign bond segment while the rules for investing in stocks remained unchanged. As a result, the sensex closed 117 points lower at 74,243 points, with net selling by foreign funds in stocks on Friday at Rs 8,776 crore, BSE data showed.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/business\/india-business\/g-secs-rally-as-govt-and-rbi-ease-foreign-investing-rules\/articleshow\/131540533.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Bonds rallied after govt and RBI announced measures to encourage foreign investment in govt securities on Friday. The yields on benchmark 10-year govt securities (G-Secs) softened to 6.94% in early trades, from 6.99% on Thursday, after the govt said foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) would be exempted from long-term capital gains and withholding taxes on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}