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We were well aware of September's historical reputation as a challenging month for the stock market. In fact, when we examine data dating back to 1950 for the S&P 500, it emerges as the most unfavorable month of the year.

Saudi Aramco is looking for more acquisitions in LNG following a first-ever deal in the industry last month, as it sees growing demand for the fuel.

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After a near 30% run-up in just three months, oil bulls are counting on OPEC to sprinkle a little more magic dust on the market. 

en masse from conventional cars to EVs, a huge rise in the cost of gasoline and diesel would be even more powerful than these subsidies. Saudi Arabia and Russia are rational states, not particularly prone to bouts of suicidal anxiety. Why would they constrain production enough to accelerate the dumping of petrofuels for mobility? Four, the Ukraine war, a prime driver of food and fuel inflation, is a war of choice.

Sunil Subramaniam, MD & CEO, Sundaram Mutual, says from an economic news perspective, I do not see any surprises. We are in a festival season and this time we have a slightly elongated festival season with Diwali coming in around mid-November. That is good news from the consumer section, consumer durables and auto and housing sectors and that is good news for the markets. At the same time, the state assembly elections in key Hindi belt states will provide a little bit of a clue in terms of the next coming parliamentary election. While they will not have a significant impact because voters behave differently in parliament, the markets will be a bit sensitive if those elections do not go the way of the ruling party at the Centre. What is your view on the market? Right now we were cruising around that 20,000 mark headed for higher levels and then suddenly back to 19,500? Yes, it is just a reflection of stuff happening outside India in terms of oil prices strengthening as well as the US Fed being hawkish in terms of the interest rate outlook and their actions. These two tended to be a bit negative for emerging market flows and India especially is very sensitive to oil. We import 85% of our crude and hence any movement trend around oil makes a big impact.

Investing.com — It's OPEC+ week ahead and we can expect the drone on how much higher crude prices can go to continue all week.

₹209 from 1 October. The hike of ₹209 has come after two successive reduction of ₹250 (Approx) in August and September this year. In Delhi, the commercial gas cylinder price has been increased to ₹1,731.50/kg from ₹1,522.50/kg.

Afghanistan in the Russian city of Kazan that saw participation from India and representatives of the Taliban called for an inclusive government in Kabul, ensuring rights of women and preventing the Afghan territory from being used for spreading terror. India was represented at Friday’s meeting by its Moscow-based envoy Pawan Kapoor. ET was the first to report that India will participate in the Moscow format meet in Kazan on September 29. The fifth meeting of the Moscow format on Afghanistan also witnessed the participation of special representatives and senior officials from Russia, China, Pakistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Representatives of Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Turkiye also attended the meeting as invited parties.

closer to $100 a barrel, many investors took profits on the rally given ongoing macroeconomic concerns. Crude prices going above $100 per barrel mark brings inflationary pressures on global economy and will compel central banks to raise interest rates all over again. Front-month Brent November futures settled down 7 cents to $95.31 per barrel at the contract's expiry, up about 2.2 per cent in the week and 27 per cent between July-September.

Tyson Fury will fight Oleksandr Usyk for an unprecedented undisputed heavyweight fight, according to Fury's promoter Frank Warren. The blockbuster fight is set to take place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Investing.com — Crude prices fell on the last trading day of September on growing uneasiness over how the world might cope in the coming months with exploding energy costs, even as the U.S. economy and inflation appeared to have escaped the worst of such impact right away. Those long oil also won big on the month and quarter, helped largely by chokes on Saudi and Russian supply.

₹12,100 per tonne. For the past two weeks, it was at ₹10,000 per tonne. Further, in the notification, the ministry said that the levy on sale of diesel has been decreased from ₹5.5 per litre to ₹5 per litre and from ₹3.5 per litre to ₹2.5 per litre on ATF.

TEL AVIV—Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s big bet on sealing a landmark rapprochement with Saudi Arabia is running into a familiar problem: The Palestinians want land for giving their blessing to a deal, but Netanyahu’s coalition partners are adamantly against the idea. Talks have been in flux over economic incentives for the Palestinians to get on board with what would be a historic realignment in the Middle East.

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Pakistan to fulfil its commitments under the IMF programme for the sake of economic continuity. In June, the IMF already agreed, in principle, to a nine-month Stand-by Arrangement worth about $3 billion with Pakistan. The finance minister also touched on the external financing gap.

The Dawn newspaper reported that this information was part of a detailed policy statement issued by caretaker Finance Minister Shamshad Akhtar before the Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Revenue, presided over by Senator Saleem Mandviwalla in Islamabad on Thursday. She said the government was currently working on an economic revival plan that would be presented to the caretaker prime minister Anwar ul Haq Kakar soon and shared with the Senate Standing Committee on Finance.

Ajay Bagga, market expert, says “PSU banks are still looking quite good. Talking about valuations, I would say India is quite moderately valued. The problem is the global macro. These higher for longer riskoff is affecting us. We have seen about six-seven weeks of FII outflows on a net basis. So that is a problem. It is a constraint on our market's ability to rise fast. But the domestic funds that are coming in, are providing a good support and those should win through.” Are you optimistic about the October series looking at the moving pieces? We are waiting for a couple of events to pass through. One is, of course, the looming US shutdown. Historically, it has not had much of an impact but the reports are that this could last for anything like a couple of weeks to four weeks. In 2018-2019, it went on for six weeks and it had a minor impact on the GDP. So let us get that through, especially given Monday is a holiday in India, we can wait that out. The other two concerns are: a)Chinese property loans that are standing at about 60 trillion Yuan. It is not a new problem, it is a three years old problem but the Chinese government has not been able to resolve it and now the position is that even quality real estate developers like Country Garden are facing a lot of issues of liquidity. So eventually the rescue package will come from the Chinese government which will be a trigger for the markets so you can position for that.

Oil prices fell in early trade on Friday after a recent rally, as profit-taking and expectations of supply increases by Russia and Saudi Arabia outweighed forecasts of positive demand from China during its Golden Week holiday. Brent November futures which expire on Friday were down 21 cents to $95.17 per barrel. Brent December futures lost 10 cents to trade at $93.00 per barrel at 0055 GMT. U.S.

«Going ahead, the weakness in the market is likely to extend till the worry over the elevated oil prices and higher interest rates remains, posing a risk to the earnings growth trajectory,” said Siddhartha Khemka, Head — Retail Research, Motilal Oswal Financial Services. Here's breaking down the pre-market actions: STATE OF THE MARKETS GIFT Nifty (Earlier SGX Nifty) signals a negative start GIFT Nifty on the NSE IX traded higher by 25.5 points, or 0.13 per cent, at 19631.5, signaling that Dalal Street was headed for negative start on Friday.

A deal for Saudi Aramco to buy a $US500 million ($778 million) stake in one of the North American suitors for Origin Energy will bring the oil giant into the Australian LNG sector for the first time and has raised questions around foreign investment approval for the $18.7 billion takeover.