Crude Above $107 Drags Nifty Below 23,300 As Rate-Hike Bets Harden
Nifty opened below 23,300 and Sensex shed around 600 points as Brent held above $107 and a hotter US producer price print firmed up rate-hike expectations. US yields sat at multi-year highs, the dollar firmed, gold stayed capped and crypto majors slipped. Realty and rate-sensitives led the fall.
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Crude matters twice for India. It widens the import bill and it feeds into inflation, which limits how freely policy can stay easy. When US yields climb at the same time, foreign money turns choosy, the rupee feels it, gold loses its yield edge and risk assets like crypto usually thin out first.