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Stocks plummet as crude nears $100
Mint Mumbai
|September 21, 2023
High oil prices could force central banks to raise interest rates
Indian benchmark indices saw their steepest single-day drop in two months, declining over 1% on Wednesday, dragged down by selling in HDFC Bank and other index heavyweights. Weakness in global markets, with crude oil prices nearing $100 a barrel, also made investors cautious ahead of the US Federal Reserve’s policy meeting.
The Sensex closed 1.2% down at 66,800.84 and the Nifty by a similar margin to 19,901.4.
US 10-year bond yields rose to a 16-year high as Brent crude hovered around $96 a barrel, up by about a third over the last three months after Opec+, a grouping of oil producing nations, cut output. While the US Federal Reserve is expected to largely keep rates on hold, high oil prices could force the US central bank’s hand to hike rates later this year.
“We got to see what the Fed does. It is likely to be a hawkish tone," said Andrew Holland, chief executive officer, Avendus Capital Public Markets Alternate Strategies.
This story is from the September 21, 2023 edition of Mint Mumbai.
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