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Friday, November 14, 2025
TopicOil Prices

Topic: Oil Prices

Palm oil producers hope India’s Diwali buying will boost their fortunes

With production in top growers climbing & prices hovering near 3-year lows, last chance to arrest palm oil’s decline is Indian demand ahead of Diwali.

Oil shock puts rupee on course to beat taper-tantrum losses in 2013

Predictions that crude could return to $100 per barrel signal that things may get a lot worse for rupee in final 3 months of 2018.

Oil shock has already hit India and other emerging economies

India has some of the least affordable transport fuel in the world, with a gallon (3.8 litres) of petrol costing more than three-quarters of average daily income.

Traders predict oil prices to touch $100 per barrel as Iran reels under US sanctions

The Iranian market doesn’t have much capacity left to replace more than 2 million barrels a day of exports that could be lost to sanctions.

Cap on oil prices will rescue sinking rupee, says SBI

The currency's recent descent is said to be self-correcting to some extent as its weakness will help perk up exports. 

India’s world-beating stock market run may be coming to an end

Goldman Sachs says India’s equity market looks less favorable amid elevated valuations, a potential slowdown in economic growth and upcoming elections.

Iran’s export pain could mean a hot winter for oil

Oil exports are down by almost a third since U.S. said it would withdraw from the nations’ nuclear deal and reimpose sanctions.

India’s economic woes increase as declining rupee adds the burden of short-term foreign debts

With the currency losing more than 11 per cent to the dollar, India will need to pay an extra $9.5 billion when repaying the short-term debts.

Modi govt’s oil policies hurt bid to sell stake in ONGC

Investors, fund managers are concerned with effects of govt pricing policies on ONGC’s share price, reimposition of subsidies and lower state-set prices.

RBI’s rate-setting panel member questions growth figures of 8.2% for June quarter

According to Ravindra Dholakia, new GDP series showed higher growth rate because corporate financial data was used for estimating manufacturing value added.

On Camera

How Nitish Kumar turned all rules of voter behaviour on their head

The conventional wisdom is that if a govt fails to improve the lot of the voters, it is punished. Kumar presided over an economic disaster for 20 years and was re-elected by a landslide.

Wealth nears $99 trillion, still Asia’s rich don’t have succession plans

Much of this wealth is tied to founder-led businesses that employ millions and help anchor regional economies.

Turkey blocks transport of Apache choppers to India through its airspace, new route being worked out

Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.