Global Growth Under Strain, India Defies It: IMF’s 7% Vote of Confidence Has One Bright Spot—India

In the final week of March, a peculiar disruption unfolded within the global petroleum market as conflict in the Middle East choked the Strait of Hormuz, causing crude prices to surge to $126 per barrel. A more revealing anomaly remained obscured beneath these headline figures. Global petroleum trade relies on two primary reference benchmarks: Brent, which monitors European and Atlantic
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