While growth in the South Asian nation is being driven by urbanization and rising incomes, China is facing slowing crude consumption growth aside from in petrochemicals.
The latest hike brought petrol prices in the National Capital Region (NCR) to Rs 96.21/litre and diesel prices to Rs 87.47/litre, oil marketing companies also increased LPG prices by almost Rs 50/cylinder, taking the price of a standard 14.2 kg cylinder to about Rs 949.5 in Delhi. There are also no plans to cut down on the excise duties on the fuel.
Bill O'Neill of Logic Advisers says there are a plethora of events taking place in the global economy that the technicals had signaled to them that crude prices would fall below USD 80 a barrel which it did.