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Oil prices fall on US-China tensions, weak factory data; crude inventories likely to increase in coming weeks
•While global oil demand is expected to recover modestly from April lows as countries ease some lockdown measures, the glut created over months in storage facilities will loom over the markets.

Royal Dutch Shell cuts dividend for first time since World War Two as oil demand drops due to coronavirus pandemic
•Royal Dutch Shell cut its dividend for the first time since World War Two on Thursday as the energy company retrenched in the face of an unprecedented drop in oil demand due to the coronavirus pandemic

ONGC asks govt to waive cess, royalty as plummeting oil prices not enough to cover operating cost
•State-owned ONGC has asked the government to waive payment of oil cess and royalty as plummeting international oil prices have meant that the rate it now gets does not even cover the operating cost, sources said

Oil price collapse in US not to lead to any big drop in petrol, diesel prices in India, say experts
•The historic rout in oil markets that sent US crude prices plummeting to as much as minus $40 a barrel is unlikely to translate into any big reduction in petrol and diesel prices in India as domestic pricing is based on the different benchmark, and refineries are already filled up to brim and cannot buy US crude just yet

Stock Market Latest Updates: Sensex tanks over 1,000 points, Nifty below 9,000-mark; except pharma, all other sectoral indices end in red
Fp Staff •Stock Market Today LIVE Updates: Sensex plunges 870 points, Nifty at 9,000-level; Rupee slips 26 paise to 76.79 against dollar

Rupee gives up early gains, slides to all-time low of 76.44 as dollar strengthens; weak domestic equities weigh on local unit
•At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened strong at 76.07, but soon lost ground and finally settled at 76.44, registering a fall of 17 paise over its previous close.

OPEC, Russia approve biggest-ever oil cut to support prices amid coronavirus pandemic; cut unprecedented deal
•OPEC, Russia approve biggest-ever oil cut to support prices amid coronavirus pandemic; unprecedented deal made with oil producing nations

Coronavirus Outbreak: IOC declares force majeure on oil purchases from Saudi, UAE, Iraq, Kuwait
•India's top oil firm IOC has declared force majeure on crude purchases from four of its biggest suppliers - Saudi Arabia, Iraq, UAE and Kuwait - as refinery run rates have been cut down in view of plummeting fuel demand following a nationwide lockdown

Oil crisis: Saudi Arabia, Russia fracas over production cut sends prices crashing; puts Africa's cash-strapped producers in peril
Fp Staff •A three-year supply pact between the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and other oil producers, including Russia, fell apart this month after Moscow refused to support Riyadh’s plan for deeper production cuts,

Coronavirus Outbreak: India's vegetable oil demand set to drop for first time in decades amid 21-day nationwide lockdown
•Demand for vegetable oil in India is poised to fall for the first time in decades as restaurants have pulled down their shutters to comply with a government order that imposed a 21-day nationwide lockdown to stem the spread of the coronavirus

