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Thursday, August 21, 2025
TopicOil price

Topic: oil price

Surging oil prices could push more foreign funds out of India, South Korea

While stocks in Mumbai & Seoul have already taken hits from concerns over Fed rate hikes and a related tech selloff, analysts see both as more susceptible to risk-off sentiment.

Palm oil duty cut to reduce prices will fry domestic potential, self-reliance, say producers

Govt reduced import duty on palm oil earlier this month to bring down retail prices. Some oil and farm associations say it contradicts govt’s vision of 'Atmanirbhar Bharat'.

India to release 5 million barrels of crude oil from emergency stockpiles to cool prices

The US last week made the unusual request to some of the world’s largest oil-consuming nations to consider releasing crude oil in a coordinated effort to lower global energy prices.

Why Gulf Arab states should make the most of oil’s last boom

Even at $70 a barrel, the current prices do not meet fiscal break-even thresholds for most Gulf Arab states, and the gap between revenue & fiscal expenditure has been wide since 2015.

India’s oil demand is showing signs of bouncing back after record fall in April

Demand in May will be 25% higher than April as planting season begins, requiring tractors & water pumps to burn more diesel & lockdown is eased.

Fears of a second wave of virus infections pummels crude oil prices again

The collapse in consumption of oil demand caused by the coronavirus pandemic has forced countries around the world to cut crude output.

Negative oil prices were a warning, not an anomaly in the time of coronavirus

The negative oil price situation has arisen because there is still simply too much crude being produced in a world that can’t use it.

The Centre-state face-off on Covid-19 and Earth’s changing face

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

India set to gain on OPEC deal failure after oil windfall on coronavirus

Oil buyers will be 'spoiled for choice' as the supply of high-sulfur crude, which has tightened after US sanctions on Iran and Venezuela, will become more readily available now.

Why it’s time to scrap OPEC+

The expansion of OPEC into OPEC+ has added a new layer of complexity to the decision-making process while contributing little in the way of real output cuts.

On Camera

What a Tamil town tells us about votes, caste, and fraud in medieval India

Nepotism seems to have been a concern in Uttaramerur elections. That's why the drawing of ballots was done by a child and executives' relatives were banned from being elected.

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

First-of-its kind tri-services conference Ran Samvad to take place in Army War College next week

Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?