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Tuesday, August 12, 2025
TopicMoody’s Investors Service

Topic: Moody’s Investors Service

Rupee crashes to 72 per dollar as India scrambles to halt fall

The currency has set a string of record lows, shadowing India’s optimistic world-beating economic growth.

Rising oil prices could cause Indian banks to sweat

Higher oil prices will likely widen India's current-account deficit, but this won't affect the country's external position.

India’s demands erode 90% of once cash rich ONGC coffers

ONGC’s largest shareholder, the central government, has been tapping state-run companies including India’s biggest energy explorer to bridge its fiscal deficit.

GLOBAL PULSE: China’s addiction to debt, Trump and Obama in Europe, and Taiwan is first in Asia to allow gay marriages

CHINA HAS AN ADDICTION PROBLEM China has been on a spending spree, but the debt-fuelled binge can now sap the world’s second largest economy.

On Camera

With nuke lunacy, Asim Munir joins Pakistan’s Hall of Generals who swapped brains for bluster

Munir indicates that he’s willing to go for broke, even if it risks taking his country “and half the world” down with him. It’s important to understand where he is coming from.

How mining, manufacturing & power sectors weighed on India’s industrial output since January 2024

India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.

‘Next war may come sooner than expected, will require whole-of-nation approach’—Army chief

Gen Dwivedi framed Op Sindoor not just as retaliation to Pahalgam, but as demonstration of India’s capability to fight multi-domain conflicts with integration between services & agencies.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.