Sensex climbs 162 points

% Change

India

Sensex

1.95

Korea

Seoul

1.76

Taiwan

Taiwan weighted

1.45

Hong Kong

Hang Seng

0.73

Japan

Nikkei 225

0.53

China

Shanghai Composite

0.17

Indonesia

Jakarta Composite

-1.41

 With international crude oil prices receding and the worries of rising inflation and interest rates also relegated to the background, emerging markets have been on a firm uptrend over the past week.  Most leading emerging markets appear to be in the positive territory so far in the month.  Though foreign investors and domestic mutual funds were buyers on Friday, they were sellers yesterday. While the net outflow of foreign institutional investors stood at Rs 137 crore, domestic mutual funds were net sellers to the tune of Rs 83 crore.  This month, FIIs have poured in Rs 1537 crore though mutual funds were largely on the selling side, pulling out Rs 295 crore.