Brent crude was up $1.06, or 1.6%, at $65.30 a barrel by 0204 GMT, after earlier hitting a high of $66.38

Fuel prices in India: Petrol is inching closer towards the Rs 100 mark in Mumbai

Stock Market News Updates Today: Global equities were buoyed today as positive macroeconomic data flow and hopes of a COVID-19 vaccine boosted investor sentiment

Stocks to watch today on February 23: RIL, Airtel, HDFC Bank, Vedanta, UPL, Info Edge, Bharat Forge among others are the top stocks to watch out for in Tuesday's trading session

Brent crude was up 51 cents, or 0.8%, at $63.42 a barrel by 0945 GMT, after gaining nearly 1% last week. U.S. oil rose 45 cents, or 0.8%, to $59.69 a barrel, having fallen 0.4% last week

Asia's third-largest economy imported about 4.8 million barrels per day (bpd) oil in January, a decline of 6% from the previous month and marginally higher than a year earlier

Sensex and Nifty fell sharply today, led by selling pressure in the auto and banking sectors. The broader mood of the market turned bearish last week, after a few days of the lacklustre movement

China passed a law last month which for the first time explicitly allows its coast guard to fire on foreign vessels

China passed a law last month which for the first time explicitly allows its coast guard to fire on foreign vessels

Sectors too saw profit booking in index heavyweights from all-time highs. All sectors witnessed heavy selling pressure today, with PSU Banking dropping over 4%, followed by a 2% fall in auto and over 1.5% decline in metal and private banking index

Private wealth creators are solely responsible for India's banking stress; increasingly fleeing India with their wealth and bank loans, and those making huge profits are doing so by cutting jobs and wages

DHFL stock rose 4.99% to Rs 18.95 on BSE. Market cap of the firm stood at Rs 594 crore. DHFL share has gained 32.98% in the last 6 days

The lack of demand from refineries will likely lead to builds in crude stocks over coming weeks, even though around 3.5 million barrels per day (bpd) of US oil output has been shut

Regular petrol rate crossed the Rs 90 mark for the first time in Delhi at Rs 90.19 per litre as against Rs 89.88 on Thursday, while diesel price climbed to Rs 80.60 a litre, as per data from the Indian Oil Corporation website

Stock Market News Updates Today: Bajaj Finserv, IndusInd Bank, RIL, Kotak Bank were among the top gainers today, while NTPC, PowerGrid, Asian Paints, ICICI Bank, Tata Motors were among the top losers

Stocks to watch today on February 19: NMDC, DLF, IDFC First Bank, Airtel, Vodafone, Indian Oil, Ambuja Cements among others are the top stocks to watch out for in Friday's trading session

The inflation target could be tweaked to accommodate the government's higher borrowing plan of Rs 12 lakh crore in 2021-22

As debt-laden distressed companies fall by the wayside, some cash-rich large companies are practically monopolising their sectors

Sectorally, auto, metal, media and PSU bank index were in buying demand, while FMCG, IT, realty, private banking and pharma sectors witnessed selling

In Ganganagar district of Rajasthan, prices shot up to Rs 100.13 per litre for non-branded petrol on February 17. The prices of branded petrol had already breached the Rs 100 level a fortnight ago