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Mumbai, Jul 7 (PTI) Market benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty climbed in early deals on Tuesday helped by foreign fund inflows and crude oil prices coming back to the pre-war levels amid easing tensions in the West Asia. The 30-share BSE Sensex advanced 176 points to 78,461.16 in opening trade. The 50-share NSE Nifty went up by 34.1 points to 24,464.45. From the Sensex pack, Titan, Infosys, Eternal, Tech Mahindra, HCL Tech and Tata Consultancy Services were among the major winners. From the lagg

March 22 (Reuters) British Prime Minister Keir Starmer summoned a national emergency meeting on Monday to deal with the economic fallout from the escalating war in Iran, as Britains government borrowing costs surged to their highest level since the global crisis of 2008. The storm in financial markets intensified in early trade this week after Iran said it would strike the energy and water systems of Gulf neighbours if U.S. President Donald Trump follows through with a threat to hit Irans elect

WELLINGTON, New Zealand, March 23, 2026 (AP) The head of the International Energy Agency said Monday that the global economy faces a major, major threat because of the Iran war. No country will be immune to the effects of this crisis if it continues to go in this direction, Fatih Birol told Australias National Press Club in Canberra on Monday. He said the crisis in the Middle East has had a worse combined impact than the two oil shocks of the 1970s and the effect on gas markets of the Russia-Uk

WASHINGTON, March 10, 2026 (AP) The war with Iran is doing collateral damage to the world economy. The conflict is driving up energy and fertilizer prices; threatening food shortages in poor countries; destabilizing fragile states such as Pakistan; and complicating options for the inflation fighters at central banks like the Federal Reserve. Causing much of the pain: Iran shut down the Strait of Hormuz through which a fifth of worlds oil passes after the U.S. and Israel launched missile strik