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Monday, September 15, 2025
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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

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.