Oil Prices Drive Markets
Oil Prices and US-Iran Diplomacy Expected to Steer Cautious Indian Markets This Week
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Indian equities are expected to trade cautiously during a holiday-shortened week, with US-Iran diplomacy, crude prices and global bond yields central to investor sentiment. Brent crude near $105–106 a barrel and WTI around $93 remain concerns for inflation, India’s import bill and the rupee, while uncertainty over the Strait of Hormuz and regional supply routes continues to support oil-market risk. Hopes for renewed US-Iran talks and recovering Saudi exports have eased some supply concerns, but flows remain vulnerable to disruption. Rising bond yields and a stronger dollar could further pressure emerging-market capital flows; investors will also watch industrial production, manufacturing PMI, auto sales, foreign investor activity and US data. The Nifty’s recent seven-week losing streak, its longest in six years, underscores the market’s vulnerability, and Indian exchanges will be closed Friday for Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti.
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GIFT Nifty was down 14 points, or 0.06%, at 22,810.5 in early trading, signaling a flat-to-negative opening for the Nifty 50 and Sensex.
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August industrial production grew more strongly than expected, with manufacturing and electricity output supporting the increase and potentially bolstering confidence in India’s growth momentum.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said reopening the Strait of Hormuz depended on Iran’s conditions being met, adding that only a negotiated solution could resolve the impasse.
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Saudi crude exports reportedly rose to more than 4 million barrels per day in September, from 2.4 million in August; Qatar said it had worked with Tehran and Washington for nearly two weeks to help restart talks, with Qatar and Pakistan mediating.
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The US 10-year Treasury yield was near 5.2%, which HST Wealth founder Hariselvan Radhakrishnan identified as a constraint on global risk appetite.
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