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Sunday, March 15, 2026
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'.

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.

The world’s oil glut is much worse than it looks

With demand growth weakening and non-OPEC supply rising, oil-producing nations may to have to consider both longer and deeper cuts.

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US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

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.