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India imports most of its crude, so each dollar on Brent raises the import bill and the cost base of fuel retailers, airlines, paint and tyre makers, while refiners' margins move with the gap between crude and product…
Standalone refiners such as CPCL and MRPL earn the gross refining margin - the gap between crude and product prices - and have no retail pump network on which prices are held down, so a product-led rise in oil shows up…
A refining margin of $42 a barrel is the diesel and fuel shortage showing up in an oil major's accounts: the gap between crude and products has widened, which pays refiners and costs airlines, hauliers and other fuel…
India imports most of its crude, and much of it comes from the Gulf, so the volume moving through Hormuz matters as much as the headline price. More cargoes getting through eases the supply squeeze that has kept Brent…
Bauxite is the starting raw material for alumina and aluminium, so the ruling settles a cost dispute rather than changing output. CLSA estimates a near-term rise in production cost of roughly $10 a tonne and a one-time…
No extra barrels are scheduled for November, and the report notes most members already pump below their targets because the conflict that began on February 28 has effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz. For India…
For India the link is indirect: a smaller European harvest tightens world cereal and sugar supply at a time when the FAO food index is already at its highest since 2022 and India's own monsoon ended about 13% below…
The forecast describes the home market of ArcelorMittal, Thyssenkrupp, Salzgitter, Voestalpine, SSAB and Outokumpu, whose volumes depend on European construction, machinery and car production. Near-flat demand at a…
These are world prices, so the exposure in India runs through imported inputs and export parity. Edible oil refiners and packaged-food makers buy palm and other vegetable oils largely from abroad, and biscuit, noodle…
India imports most of its crude, so the price sets the input bill for the state fuel retailers and the under-recoveries they carry on petrol, diesel and LPG. The detail that matters here is diesel: Indian refiners that…
Power and fuel, including petcoke, coal and diesel for freight, are among the largest cost items for listed cement makers. Their margins depend on whether price increases keep pace with those costs. September-quarter…
Jet fuel can make up as much as 40% of an airline's operating costs, according to the report, so listed carriers absorb a sharp, direct rise in their largest cost. Restaurants, hotels and caterers that use commercial…
Crude back above $100 raises selling prices for US oil producers and, with a lag, fuel costs for airlines, trucking and shipping companies, cruise lines and chemical and plastics makers that use oil-based feedstock…
Higher gas prices raise power prices and input costs for energy-intensive producers in chemicals (BASF, Covestro), fertilisers (Yara), steel and glass, and squeeze utilities and energy retailers that cannot pass costs…
LNG export volume is the revenue base for US liquefaction operators and for the pipeline companies that carry feed gas to the Gulf Coast terminals, and it is a growing source of demand for US gas producers. Higher…
Wholesale power is revenue for generators such as EDF's listed peers, Iberdrola, Enel, RWE and Engie, with the split depending on what each runs: nuclear output curbed by river temperatures cannot capture high prices…
Storage levels going into winter shape European gas and power prices. Gas-fired generators and energy retailers buy the fuel; chemicals, fertiliser, glass and steel producers use it as feedstock and process heat, so it…
Crude is the revenue line for US exploration and production companies and the main cost input for refiners, airlines, truckers and chemical makers, so a slide to pre-war prices cuts both ways across listed sectors. The…
Cheaper crude directly narrows losses at IOC, BPCL and HPCL, whose earnings swing with the gap between pump prices and international product costs; diesel and LPG remain loss-making, so their recovery is partial. Lower…
India imports most of its crude, so a spike of this size widens the import bill and current-account deficit, weakens the rupee and lifts fuel and petrochemical costs. State-run fuel retailers such as IOC, BPCL and HPCL…
Fuel is the biggest swing cost for airlines and cruise lines: United rose 7.9% and Carnival 11.2% on the day. For oil producers and refiners the move works the other way, cutting realised prices from the wartime peak…