11.   Foreign portfolio investors and domestic savers followed and exacerbated the trend.

12.   Foreign portfolio investors, individuals and foreign banks would all likely follow suit.

13.   It also means lower arbitrage income and less reason for short-term portfolio investors to park their money in the Philippines.

14.   Japan was the top direct equity investor, while Hong Kong and Britain were the largest portfolio investors in the country.

15.   Potanin was upbeat about the prospect of selling Avtovaz to portfolio investors, despite its near-bankruptcy.

16.   Ramos said the Philippines had enough of nervous portfolio investors and will seek to attract long term direct investments.

17.   Then the sentiment turned negative and portfolio investors were pulling out.

18.   He said foreign portfolio investors who had emerged a year ago as key players on Indian bourses were now selling in a big way and buying only select shares.

19.   A trader at a Moscow brokerage firm, who declined to be named, said the St Petersburg eurobonds, denominated in dollars, would target US portfolio investors.

20.   Adding to the gloom was news that overseas portfolio investors had sharply scaled down purchases of Indian shares in November over the previous month.