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Monday, September 15, 2025
TopicOil Prices

Topic: Oil Prices

Modi’s goal of making India a $5 trillion economy by 2025 is facing big risks

India is facing a structural & a cyclical slowdown and measures announced so far by Modi govt are seen falling short of addressing pain points.

US move on Iran oil sanctions is a win-win situation for Saudi Arabia

Donald Trump’s decision not to issue waivers to the importers of Iranian oil gives Saudi Arabia the chance to absorb Iran’s market share without compromising the price.

Iran’s biggest oil clients put imports on hold as they wait to see if US extends waivers

Most Asian buyers are avoiding imports for next month as it’s unclear what will happen to the exemptions that expire in the first week of May.

Oil prices are climbing again and that’s bad news for inflation outlook

Crude prices are at 5-month high and pose a risk to benign inflation expectations that allowed RBI to cut rates.

Tumbling oil prices have delivered an early Christmas present to India’s currency market

Rupee on course for its best quarter since March 2017.

Bond bulls return to India to fuel best quarter in over year

Expectations of rate increase by the RBI have weakened after the slump in price on Brent crude. Mumbai: Oil’s price collapse is driving India’s sovereign...

Modi should thank Trump & oil prices for rupee recovery

The reprieve couldn’t have come at a better time for Modi as the opposition has used rupee’s depreciation to criticise his economic management.

Rupee to nosedive on rising oil prices & political uncertainty, says forecaster

With India importing 80 per cent of its oil needs, the rupee's weakness is also a reflection of the country's vulnerability to higher crude prices.

Modi govt is looking for money in all the wrong places

Modi govt needs money to appease voters but it shouldn’t resort to deceptive transactions involving listed public sector firms.

India wants oil producers & traders to fund $1.5 billion emergency oil reserve

Getting investors to build storage facilities will have twin benefits: reduce strain on state finances & shield economy against volatile oil prices.

On Camera

Manipur has seen too much pain to be seduced by promises

Nehru learned the truth the hard way when 3,000 Nagas walked out of his 1953 rally. The people of the Northeast aren’t easily seduced by baubles.

What’s behind bond yields’ logic-defying spike? The market’s concern over the future

While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.

Navy gets first Tata-made Spanish 3D surveillance radar for its warships, 19 more to come

It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.

Gen Zs have taken down the Nepal regime. Here’s why this will never happen in India

To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.