CLOSING BELL: Among sectors, the Nifty PSB index rose 1.56 per cent, while the Nifty Pharma slipped 0.4 per cent
Move to benefit RIL, ONGC and Oil India
(Reuters) -Oil prices fell over $2 a barrel on Wednesday before recouping some losses, under pressure from global central bank efforts to limit inflation and ahead of an expected buildup in U.S. crude inventories as fuel demand weakens.
By Arundhati Sarkar
Stock market live updates: At 7:25 AM, the SGX Nifty Futures quoted at 16,512 levels, indicating a gap-up of 172 odd-points.
Centre, on Wednesday, eliminated a levy on gasoline exports and cut windfall taxes on other fuels less than three weeks after they were imposed
The MCX Crude Oil futures are likely to trade with a negative bias as long as the commodity trades below Rs 8,200. Whereas, Natural Gas futures face near resistance around Rs 604.
Effective from July 20, Rs 6 a litre tax on petrol export has been completely scrapped
India imposed the taxes on July 1, joining a growing number of nations placing windfall levies to tap energy companies' booming profits
CLOSING BELL: The steady depreciation in the value of the rupee against the US dollar is likely to prove expensive for corporate India
Crude tanker freight rates remained around opex levels for most of the year in FY22 but experienced a sudden spurt starting end-Feb 2022 due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Crude oil prices jumped on Monday as US President Joe Biden's talks with West Asian countries failed to culminate in an agreement to increase output
Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom declared force majeure on gas supplies to Europe to at least one major customer, potentially ratcheting up the continent's supply crunch
LONDON (Reuters) -Oil prices rose on Friday after a U.S. official told Reuters an immediate Saudi oil output boost is not expected, while indications that the U.S. central bank could raise interest rates less aggressively than anticipated also supported crude.
CLOSING BELL: Tata Consumer Products, Titan, Eicher Motors, HUL, Tata Motors, Maruti, M&M, Nestle India, HDFC, L&T, and BPCL topped the charts
LONDON (Reuters) -Oil prices fell more than $2 on Thursday as investors focused on the prospect of a large U.S. rate hike later this month that could stem inflation but at the same time hit oil demand.
On the bourses, shares of RIL jumped 2.4 per cent in the intra-day trade, while those of ONGC rose 6.4 per cent.
CLOSING BELL: Axis Bank, HCL Tech, SBI, Tech M, TCS, Wipro, Infosys, and Ultratech Cement were the top large-cap laggards
Brent crude futures for September fell 20 cents, or 0.2%, to $99.37 a barrel by after gaining 8 cents on Wednesday.
Post windfall tax, the realised spread on diesel and gasoline has fallen to near loss-making levels while the realisation on aviation fuel and crude have also gone below 15-year averages