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US spot funds posted their largest daily inflow since October 2025, led by BlackRock, ARK 21Shares and Fidelity, while a short squeeze and softer oil helped lift the broader risk tape.
A Federal Reserve hike and an RBI cash squeeze have handed Indian government bonds their fifth consecutive weekly loss, according to a report from Economic Times. Here is what that actually does to a saver who has never bought a bond.
Reports say a 25-basis-point rise by the US Federal Reserve has economists expecting the Reserve Bank of India to follow. Here is the chain that links a decision in Washington to an Indian home loan — and why nothing has been settled yet.
The Bank of Japan raised rates while the Bank of England held at 3.75 percent, according to reports carried by Economic Times — and the household caught between the pump and the loan repayment is paying for the disagreement.
Attacks on Saudi energy infrastructure knocked the kingdom's key East-West pipeline out of service on Tuesday, and both of oil's benchmarks moved higher. For a country that buys its crude abroad, the cost of an outage like that arrives quietly, in a hundred small places.
Oil pushed past a hundred dollars a barrel on Thursday after Iran said it had hit ten vessels, according to the Economic Times. Analysts quoted in that report floated a higher level if tension in the Strait of Hormuz continues - a conditional, not a schedule.
One report put Brent crude at $100.07 a barrel and another had it near $99 on the same morning, after Iran's missile strike on a Jordanian base. The Sensex fell 813 points that day, and oil was only one of three reasons the reporting gave.
US forces struck three Iranian oil tankers over the weekend, one of them filmed sinking in the Gulf of Oman. Oil is now knocking on $100 a barrel, while Washington's own Bessent sees $40 once the war ends. Both numbers describe the same barrel.
The dollar strengthened as renewed Middle East conflict lifted oil prices and Treasury yields, sharpening bets on tighter Federal Reserve policy and weighing on the yen and sterling.
Foreign portfolio investors added to Indian equities in August for the second month in a row, a stretch the Economic Times ties to steadier earnings, a stable economy and easing geopolitical tension - with crude oil and US yields still lurking as risks.
Brent and WTI just snapped a winning run as Hormuz flows eased supply fears, but polyester-yarn costs are still squeezing Gujarat's powerloom belt.
Government bond prices fell on Thursday as heavy supply overwhelmed softer crude, and minutes hinted rates could still rise if inflation widens.
A bond-buyback story and a forced close of bearish bets are powering the move, but the underlying data is thinner than the headline suggests.
Treasury buyback news and incoming US inflation data have put the metal's next direction in focus, with one bank lifting its outlook.
From a January peak near $95,000 to a June trough under $60,000, bitcoin looked done for the year. Days later it climbed back above $77,000 — while gold surged more than 5% for the week and the dollar slid.
Crude crossed $91 a barrel after peace talks stalled, and Economic Times reports the rupee opened seven paise weaker at 95.68 while both benchmark indices slipped. The chain between a distant negotiation and an Indian fuel bill is shorter than it looks.
Gold and silver both rose on the MCX on Friday, but reports locate the mechanism in a squeezed physical silver market: global stockpiles under pressure and industrial buyers absorbing metal, against a backdrop of easing oil prices and U.S. rate expectations.
Crude slipped on Thursday after reports of a fresh Iran-Oman understanding over the Strait of Hormuz, easing inflation worries from Tokyo's bond market to Mumbai's open. A stalling AI rally pulled the other way.
Brent slid to $83.56 a barrel on Monday after President Trump paused strikes on Iran to chase a nuclear deal, according to Economic Times. Gold went the other way. Somewhere in between sits an ordinary household's fuel bill.
Chevron cleared analyst expectations and Exxon's profits climbed as crude prices jumped, according to a report from Investing.com India. The bigger story is the short, direct line between a war risk premium, a household fuel bill and a very good quarter for Big Oil.
Middle East tensions are pushing crude toward triple digits, and India's bond market is feeling the heat—along with anyone who drives, ships goods, or pays an electricity bill.
Brent crude has surged to a six-week high as U.S.-Iran tensions flare, sending shockwaves through Indian markets and testing investors who thought the worst was over.
From your morning commute to your retirement portfolio, the US-Iran conflict is rewriting the math for Indian households already squeezed by inflation.
Oil prices have surged past $96 a barrel as Middle East tensions escalate, forcing central bankers into an impossible choice and ordinary families into budget decisions they didn't plan for.