By Staff Reporter | May 18, 2026 Global financial markets are navigating one of their most turbulent stretches in decades as the US dollar firms, government bond markets crack under pressure, and crude oil prices continue their relentless climb — all converging forces rooted in the escalating US-Iran war that has fundamentally altered the calculus…

Mumbai / New Delhi, May 18, 2026 — The Indian rupee broke through yet another floor on Sunday, touching a record low of 96.17 against the US dollar — a level that would have been unthinkable eighteen months ago and is now, grimly, a milestone in a slide that has made the rupee Asia’s worst-performing…

Crude oil has done it again. After a brief dip on peace deal optimism, Brent crude surged nearly 8% in a single week to touch $110 per barrel — a move that has energy traders, central bankers, and household budgets all asking the same question: how much higher can this go before something breaks? Brent…

For 75 days, India has watched its energy lifeline choke. The US Iran war’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz has slashed LPG imports by 53%, tightened LNG supplies, and exposed a vulnerability that 1.4 billion people cannot afford to ignore. Now, the Modi government is moving on a solution decades in the making: a…

Seventy-five days after the most consequential closure of the world’s most important oil chokepoint, the numbers remain brutal. Oil above $100. Ship transits down 95%. Global inventories depleting at a record pace. And in Beijing, the two leaders who may hold the only real key to ending it are sitting across from each other for…

For the first time in nearly a decade, an American president walked down the steps of Air Force One in Beijing — and the weight of everything the world needs from this meeting arrived with him. Donald Trump landed in the Chinese capital on May 13, 2026, greeted by Chinese officials and a protocol ceremony…

Beijing / Tehran / Washington — Beneath the surface of the US Iran war’s military strikes, diplomatic ultimatums, and cascading sanctions packages lies a financial reality that Washington has found extraordinarily difficult to confront directly: Iran is not broke. It is not collapsing. It is not being strangled into submission by the maximum pressure campaign…

When historians write about the 2026 Iran war, they will note the missiles, the blockades, and the staggering human cost. But they will also note something unexpected: the conflict has been one of the most powerful accelerants of the clean energy transition in modern history — and the countries and companies that had quietly invested…

The world is at war in the Persian Gulf. Oil is trading above $104 a barrel. Inflation is at a two-year high. And yet the S&P 500 just closed at an all-time record. Welcome to the strangest stock market in a generation — where a global energy crisis and a Wall Street bull run are…

The Pacific Ocean is warming fast. Scientists are watching the numbers climb and issuing a warning that the world — and India in particular — may be heading toward one of the most disruptive climate events in decades: a Super El Niño that could scorch summer temperatures, slash monsoon rainfall, and destabilise agriculture across the…