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Monday, March 16, 2026
TopicArcelor Mittal

Topic: Arcelor Mittal

India’s steel consumption set for slowest growth in 3 years

Steel companies are taking a battering this year as a crisis in the country’s shadow banking sector fueled a cash crunch, and economic growth slowed to a five-year low.

Essar insolvency ruling is a big blow to Modi govt’s signature reform

Insolvency judges’ ruling that Essar creditors whose claims are backed by collateral won’t get preferential treatment can badly damage India’s debt market.

SBI-led bank lenders warn of risks to India from Essar Steel sale approval

Banks are opposed to certain terms of the Essar Steel sale, which, they say, could lead to higher lending rates, further affecting India's credit woes.

Lakshmi Mittal accuses fellow steel tycoons of hiding funds through sham transactions

Lakshmi Mittal has been engaged in a year long battle to acquire a $5.9 billion insolvent steelmaker owned by the Ruia's Essar Group.

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India must allow citizens to invest beyond its borders. It’s risk management, not luxury

The financialisation of Indian household savings is one of the most important economic shifts of the past decade. But financialisation without international diversification creates fragile balance sheets.

Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.