The financial services sector experienced the highest FPI outflows amounting to Rs 23,283 crore. This starkly contrasted with September when FPIs had invested Rs 27,200 crore in the same sector. The report indicates that foreign investors are adopting a cautious approach toward the Indian market, particularly in the financial sector.

The oil, gas, and consumable fuels sectors also suffered significant outflows of Rs 12,371 crore. Similarly affected was the automobile and auto components sector with outflows amounting to Rs 8,131 crore in October. The report highlighted that most sectors failed to attract significant FPI inflows during this period.

One exception was the chemicals sector which saw modest FPI inflows of Rs 552 crore – marking it as having received the highest inflow among all sectors.

This data underscores growing concerns among foreign investors regarding India’s current economic outlook, particularly in sectors sensitive to global market fluctuations. It is noted that continued selling by FPIs may affect market sentiment and create further volatility in these key sectors.

October has recorded historic levels of FPI outflows with foreign investors having sold a net Rs 77,701 crore in equities so far this month – surpassing even the COVID-19-induced sell-off of March 202 when Rs61,972.75 crore was offloaded.

This makes October a historic month for heavy selling pressure by FPIs and signals an unprecedented level of caution from foreign investors towards Indian markets amidst ongoing economic challenges globally.

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Former U.S. President Trump abandoned the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions on Tehran in late 2018.

Until then, Europe and Turkey had consumed close to 500,000 barrels per day (bpd) of Iranian oil. India, Iran’s biggest client after China, was buying as much as 480,000 bpd in the fiscal year beginning April 2018.

At least one European refiner has held in-depth discussions with Iran’s state oil firm NIOC on resuming purchases and Indian refiners say they plan to reduce spot purchases to make way for Iranian contract barrels.

India, the world’s third largest oil consumer and importer, halted imports from Tehran in 2019 after a temporary waiver granted to some countries expired.

U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration and Iran have engaged in indirect talks to revive the pact for Tehran to curb its nuclear activities in exchange for a lifting of sanctions.

Iran does not disclose its oil exports data, but assessments based on tanker tracking show exports fell from a peak of 2.8 million bpd to as low as 200,000 bpd in 2018. Analysts expect Iran to ramp up crude exports to 1.5 million bpd in the fourth quarter when sanctions are lifted.

Several Indian state refiners, whose refineries are suited to the crude, have committed to buying Iranian oil once sanctions are lifted. Indian refiners have raised the share of spot purchases to take advantage of cheaper barrels in a surplus market and replaced lost Iranian cargoes with U.S. oil.

State-run Bharat Petroleum Corp, which plans to tap the spot market for 45% of its overall imports, will buy Iranian oil if sanctions are lifted, a company spokesman said.
High sulphur distillate-rich Iranian crude suits BPCL’s Kochi refinery and costs $2-$2.5/barrel less than similar grades, he said.

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) also said it would buy Iranian crude given the right price and economic suitability, its chairman M. K. Surana told Reuters.

Top refiner Indian Oil Corp expects to reduce spot purchases and can easily process about 2 million tonnes (14.6 million barrels) of Iranian oil this fiscal year, said a company source, who declined to be named.

An official at Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd said his company would also cut spot purchases and buy Iranian oil.

The resumption of Iranian oil supplies will help India replace lower supplies from members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, which have curbed output to support oil prices during the COVID-19 pandemic.

(Reporting by Nidhi Verma in Delhi and Julia Payne in London; editing by Barbara Lewis – source)

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Progress in vaccine development and expectations that OPEC+ will decide in less than two weeks to roll over the current cuts for three months instead of easing them from January 2021 give bulls hopes that the oil market will regain some semblance of a balance next year, pushing prices higher.

Currently, the general consensus among analysts and agencies is that oil prices will indeed see an upside in 2021 as above-average inventories will draw down with a global economic and oil demand recovery.

Several bullish signals in recent weeks have made oil market participants and analysts more optimistic about the oil market next year, despite the current second wave of COVID-19 infections sweeping across Europe and the world’s biggest petroleum consumer, the United States.

First, crude oil and petroleum inventories in the U.S. are still above five-year average levels, but they have dropped from their peaks earlier this year, according to estimates from Reuters market analyst John Kemp based on EIA data.

Next, oil demand in Asia has visibly strengthened in recent weeks, giving the oil market hope that at least in one region, demand is strong in the fourth quarter.

Then, hopes of an effective vaccine receiving FDA approval soon also instill hopes that life could return to some form of normality at some point in 2021.

Related: Something Highly Unusual Just Happened To Chinese Crude Stockpiles All these factors resulted this week in the shallowest contango in the front-month and six-month spread in the Brent Crude futures market since July, suggesting that market participants now expect vaccines and economic recovery next year to help market rebalancing, which would push oil prices higher.

Current expectations about oil prices point to gains, especially in the latter half of 2021.

The EIA expects in its November Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) that as global oil demand rises, inventory draws in 2021 will cause some upward oil price pressures, and Brent is expected to average $47 a barrel next year, up from $44 per barrel early on Friday.

The latest monthly Reuters poll of analysts, before the vaccine progress announcements, expected Brent prices to average $49.76 per barrel in 2021, down compared to $50.41 expected in the previous survey.

However, risks to oil prices are likely still skewed to the downside, as surging COVID cases in the U.S. and Europe are prompting renewed lockdowns, curfews, mask mandates, and restrictions, which would weigh on economic activity and transportation demand in the near term. The uncertainty about how bad oil demand will be hit and how fast developed economies and demand would recover from this second wave will continue to pressure prices to the downside, at least early next year. The vaccine impact on oil demand and spot oil prices is not expected to manifest in the first half of 2021, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said last week.

Moreover, in the coming week, fuel demand in the U.S. will not receive its usual Thanksgiving travel increase as only 35 percent of Americans will be traveling for the holiday, down from 65 percent in 2019, even if Thanksgiving gasoline prices will be the lowest since 2016, a GasBuddy survey showed.

“The survey results show continued anxiety from motorists even with the lowest Thanksgiving gas prices in years, highlighting the challenges we’re facing in this pandemic,” said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy.

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From stocks to bonds and currencies, the coronavirus outbreak is rocking all corners of financial markets. For oil producers, the pain has been particularly acute. With demand dissipating, oil has plunged into a bear market, putting pressure on OPEC to step in and attempt to stabilize prices. But as the coronavirus continues to spread around the world can the cartel really play the savior?

That’s the question this week, as OPEC members and allied producers gather in Vienna for meetings on Thursday and Friday. The backdrop: Brent crude futures, the global benchmark, finished Friday at $50.52 per barrel, down 13.6% for the week. US oil was trading at $44.76, a 16.2% weekly decline. Prices haven’t been that low since late 2018.Why OPEC needs to act: The economies of some OPEC members are reliant on crude production, and the coronavirus has sharply reduced demand for products such as gasoline and jet fuel. To keep prices from dropping further, OPEC may turn to what has become its preferred strategy in recent years: coordinated production cuts.The Financial Times has reported that Saudi Arabia is pushing for a cut in production of 1 million barrels per day, much more than first expected. The kingdom would shoulder the brunt of the reduction, while Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Russia would split the rest, according to the FT. Russia is not a member of OPEC, but it has coordinated production levels with the cartel in recent years.Giovanni Staunovo, an analyst at UBS, thinks that may not be enough to alter oil’s trajectory in the near term. “I’m not sure this [would be] sufficient to change the negative market sentiment,” he told me. “What is cheap can get cheaper.”Bright spot: Staunovo points out that oil prices aren’t sustainable for long at their current level. Within six months and a year, lower business investment across a struggling industry will restrict supply, helping to prop up prices, he said. Plus, bargain crude will eventually stimulate demand.Oswald Clint, an analyst at Bernstein, agrees that prices will need to push higher before long. He thinks that an OPEC cut of 1 million barrels per day would be sufficiently supportive, especially given falling oil production in countries like Norway that predated the coronavirus outbreak.But both Staunovo and Clint agree that oil markets need a bailout from OPEC — and soon.

Stocks just had a brutal week. The next one may not be easier

Global stocks have fallen for seven trading sessions in a row, lodging their worst week since the 2008 financial crisis and putting investors on edge as the novel coronavirus continues to spread outside China.What’s happening: Stocks plunged and financial conditions tightened as traders woke up to the risks that the virus poses to global economic growth and corporate earnings, with cases now present in more than 50 countries and territories. The Dow finished the week down 12.4%, while the S&P 500 slid 11.5%.US stocks recovered some losses in the late hours of trading on Friday after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell put out a rare statement. “The fundamentals of the US economy remain strong,” he said, while acknowledging that the coronavirus “poses evolving risks to economic activity.” The central bank, Powell said, will “act as appropriate to support the economy.”To investors, the message was loud and clear: expect the Fed to cut interest rates when it meets in March. According to CME Group’s FedWatch tool, 100% of investors now predict a rate cut in March — with nearly 95% forecasting that the Fed will lower rates by a decisive 50 basis points.Will that reassurance be enough to help markets stabilize this week? It’s hard to say. After years of persistently low interest rates, investors are worried that central banks lack sufficient ammunition to stave off a crisis.”An interest rate cut in this environment will arguably do little to affect real economic activity,” Morgan Stanley economist Ellen Zentner told clients Friday.And the market remains driven by news of how the outbreak is moving around the world, as well as how it’s hitting businesses and economies. On Saturday, China said that factory activity in February hit the weakest level on record, and the first person died from the coronavirus in the United States.Justin Onuekwusi, a fund manager at Legal & General Investment Management, told me that his team — which manages $84 billion in retail multi-asset funds — has reduced its exposure to stocks and the Korean won.”We don’t feel the market has certainty on this,” he said. “The impact on Chinese growth and the rest of the world is potentially quite huge.”

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Crude oil prices went up where they left off last week. The U.S. oil price benchmark, WTI, was up around 2% to more than $57 a barrel. That caused several industry stocks soaring.

Oil prices approached a six-week high on Monday as investors have started growing a bit more optimistic about the sector’s prospects. Fueling today’s bullishness was rising hope that the U.S. and China will resolve their trade dispute, which has been weighing on oil demand.

Obviously any hope for the trade war to be ended or back to more normal conditions, the fears of a world economy recession will be less (being more conservative, we can say it will be postponed!)

In addition to that, Saudi Arabia continues to make progress on the initial public offering of its national oil company, suggesting that investors are warming up to the idea of buying shares.

The World’s Largest Oil Company Is Officially offering its stock to the public and this will impact the world’s energy market in different ways.

Aramco has entered the final stage of preparations for its much-anticipated initial public offering, by officially announcing it would list shares on the local Tadawul exchange.

“Today is the right opportunity for new investors to reap the benefits of Aramco’s ability to achieve value, and boost it on the long-term,” the chairman of Aramco, Yasir al-Rumayyan told a news conference as quoted by Reuters.

While the news is certainly welcome after months of uncertainty, the company has been shy on details. In the announcement, there was no word on the actual date of the float, the number of shares that will be offered on Tadawul, or the price.

But not all the news are positive in the Energy-sphere. There are still challenges to the sustainability of world peace and progress of the markets. issues like a probable economy crisis and recession, possibility of war in several geographical

A Wave Of Unprofitable Oil Is About To Hit The Market. The massive wave of investment that went into offshore oil projects earlier this decade may produce a lot of oil, but profits might not materialize.

Earlier this decade, between 2010 and 2014, oil prices traded at levels that are hard to imagine today, often rising above $100 per barrel. That led to huge wave of spending on costly, often high-risk oil projects, many of which were offshore in deepwater or ultra-deepwater.

As the Energy and Oil market shapes mostly in Persian Gulf area, it is important to mention Iran’s conditions and statements. Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh was quoted as saying on Monday that he expects further production cuts to be agreed at the next meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in December.

“We expect the decline in oil production to increase further, which means that we will see a further decrease by OPEC to the market,” Iran’s semi-official Mehr news agency quoted Zanganeh as saying when asked about the next OPEC meeting.

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Oil tanker war is not over

Iranian Oil Tanker is the latest of the tanker wars, which was hit by missiles. The blasts follows a series of attacks on tankers belonging to Saudi Arabia and its allies and on Saudi oil facilities which have been blamed on Iran.

Iran has not said who it believes is responsible for the attack on its tanker, though Riyadh will be top of its list of suspects.  

OPEC supply decisions

Producer club OPEC hinted at making deeper cuts in supply while optimism was revived over talks between the United States and China to end their trade war.

Beyond OPEC, trade talks between the United States and China also remained on the market’s radar as the world’s top two economies seek to resolve a more-than-a-year-long trade row that has slowed global economic growth and curbed fuel consumption.

Persian Gulf remains insecure and fragile

There are many signs for such conclusion and among them, the latest United States decision to deploy additional boots on the ground to Saudi Arabia, as well as a missile defense system, in order to shore up security in the country after it suffered an unprecedented attack on its oil infrastructure.

Venezuela stays dilute and off the market

Trafigura, Equinor, Exxon, and Unipec are among the companies that are increasingly turning their backs on Venezuelan oil contracts, along with vessel operators, all too aware of the consequences of violating U.S. sanctions against Venezuela.

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The conference aims to bring together leading industry players from the world’s fastest growing bitumen markets in the region, says Petrosil authority, the organizer of the event.

You can meet with key representatives from refineries, regional governments and bitumen end-users and take part in shaping the future of the bitumen and asphalt market at this Bitumen and Asphalt conference.

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Oil costs slipped on Monday after China posted its slowest quarterly financial development in at any rate 27 years, fortifying worries about interest on the planet’s biggest unrefined petroleum merchant.

Brent rough prospects for September fell 21 pennies to $66.51 a barrel by 0222 GMT while U.S. unrefined for August was down 28 pennies at $59.93 a barrel. The two contracts a week ago posted their greatest week by week gains in three weeks on cuts in U.S. oil creation and conciliatory strains in the Middle East.

Processing plants in the way of Tropical Storm Barry kept on working notwithstanding flood dangers while the tempest has sliced U.S. Inlet of Mexico unrefined yield by 73%, or 1.38 million barrels for each day.

A loosening up of the hazard premium from typhoon Barry, lower oil request conjectures and an absence of news from the Middle East may have prompted a quieted oil value response, Stephen Innes, overseeing accomplice at Bangkok-based Vanguard Markets, said.

China’s monetary development eased back to 6.2% in the second quarter from a year sooner, in accordance with investigators’ desires, with interest at home and abroad wavering as the Sino-U.S. exchange war nibbles.

All things considered, China’s mechanical yield and retail deals beat conjectures, “recommending that the economy in China is more beneficial than we recently been valuing,” said Michael McCarthy, boss market strategist at CMC Markets in Sydney.

In the Middle East, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said in a broadcast discourse on Sunday that Iran is prepared to hold converses with the United States if Washington lifts authorizes and comes back to the 2015 atomic arrangement it quit a year ago.

In the mean time Britain has offered to encourage the arrival of the kept Iranian oil tanker Grace 1 if Tehran gave ensures that it would not go to Syria.

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The arrangement was inked by Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs and Minister of Finance Fuad Mohammad Hussein and Ambassador of Japan to Iraq Naofumi Hashimoto, as indicated by KUNA.

The credit, viewed as one of the biggest sum given by the administration of Japan for one anticipate in the Middle East and North Africa, is refundable more than 40 years with a ten-year beauty period and 0.02 percent loan cost, as per an announcement from the Iraqi Ministry of Finance.

The undertaking expects to build Iraq’s oil refining limit by developing another plant (liquid synergist breaking (FCC) complex) at Al-Basra treatment facility, south Iraq, and presenting light gas oil hydrodesulfurization (HDS) innovation.

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Area on high caution. Iranian sources revealed to Reuters that the Supreme Leader was against arrangements, however that they would hand-off the message to him. They additionally said that any assault would have territorial and worldwide results. “There is no uncertainty that an extreme interruption to the travel of oil through this powerless course would be amazingly genuine,” said consultancy FGE Energy in a note. Oil costs were set for their biggest week by week gain since February, rising in excess of 5 percent. “Despite the fact that the activity was stopped at last, the circumstance is probably not going to quiet down at any point in the near future, particularly given Iran’s declaration that it will break the utmost on its store of advanced uranium, which was set by the atomic understanding in 2015, officially one week from now,” Commerzbank wrote in a note.

Exxon’s $53 billion interest in Iraq hits catch. ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) may look out for its $53 billion interest in Iraq that was reported half a month prior, as it has been held up by contract exchanges with Baghdad, just as the security circumstance in southern Iraq, as per Reuters. Exxon needs to recover improvement costs, something the Iraqi government says will infringe on state possession.

OPEC to keep generation level in July. Bay oil makers will keep yield inside the points of confinement of the creation cut understanding in July, regardless of the arrangement slated for termination toward the finish of this current month, as indicated by Reuters. The plans recommend that the slices are probably going to be expanded. “All the discussion currently is about an augmentation of similar cuts, or a rollover, until the year’s end,” one OPEC source told Reuters.

Oil industry needs Trump not to put levies on boring material. U.S. duties on China could influence a key material utilized in oil and gas penetrating. The business is campaigning the Trump organization not to put levies on barite, which is utilized in boring mud. About 40 percent of the 2.3 million tons utilized every year originates from China.

Chevron-Phillips 66 JV to pay $15 billion for compound organization. Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, a joint endeavor between Chevron (NYSE: CVX) and Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX), has offered to purchase Nova Chemicals Corp. for more than $15 billion. The organization produces polystyrene and gums utilized in wide scope of businesses.

New York passes memorable atmosphere bill. The province of New York just passed a standout amongst the most driven atmosphere charges on the planet. It expects to achieve net-zero discharges by 2050, an arrangement that incorporates focusing out emanations from the transportation part, including eliminating fuel autos. The European Union is thinking about a likewise aggressive proposition.

Blast and fire at Philly processing plant. A noteworthy blast and fire tore through a processing plant in South Philadelphia on Friday, possessed by Philadelphia Energy Solutions. “Any lack in front of the pinnacle of the mid year driving season does not look good for U.S. shopper wallets,” Joe Brusuelas, Chief Economist at RSM US LLP, said on Twitter. “The video of the early morning blast is terrible.” The treatment facility forms 335,000 bpd of oil, and is the primary provider of gas to the New York Harbor advertise. At the season of this composition, the degree of the harm and the effect on tasks was misty.

Anadarko greenlights $20 billion LNG venture in Mozambique. Anadarko Petroleum (NYSE: APC) affirmed the development of a $20 billion LNG fare venture in Mozambique, the biggest of its sort in Africa.

Eni rejected oil payload over Iran ties. Eni (NYSE: E) apparently dismissed a freight of suspected Iranian unrefined, a shipment that was bound for a treatment facility in Sicily. The shipment originated from a Nigerian oil exchanging organization, featuring the trouble in following unlawful shipments.

Central bank mellows tone. The U.S. Central bank spread out a progressively hesitant position this week on money related arrangement, raising any expectations of a financing cost cut when one month from now. The all the more pleasing position helped lift oil costs.

Texas controllers may take a gander at flaring. Flammable gas flaring has taken off in Texas, however controllers are feeling obligated to make a move. The Texas Railroad Commission has done next to no to hinder soaring rates of flaring, yet as per E&E news, it as of late tested the knowledge of flaring in a solicitation by an oil driller.

Putin says authorizations cost Russian $50 billion. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that universal approvals since 2014 have cost the Russian economy $50 billion.

Deepwater venture on the ascent. All out worldwide upstream speculation is required to ascend for a third year straight, in spite of the fact that at a moderate rate. Deepwater speculation is rising all the more rapidly, with capex expected to hit $80 billion, up from just $20 billion a year ago, as indicated by Wood Mackenzie. In 2014, venture break evens were $79 per barrel, which has declined to simply $50 per barrel today.

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