Real money drama — scams, layoffs, debt, windfalls and family fortunes — reported and told well.
The rupee ended Friday at 96.73, within reach of its record low. On Saturday the Reserve Bank said it will sell dollars directly to Indian Oil, HPCL and BPCL, and tightened the rules on large rupee hedges.
The RBI raised the repo rate by 25 basis points on October 7, so floating home loans reprice. Deposit rates run on a different clock: they fell through August, and the country's largest bank says they will not rise for three months.
IndiGo, Air India, Air India Express and Akasa all raised fuel surcharges within four days, and the festive fares underneath them were already climbing on the busiest routes.
The statutory provident fund wage ceiling moved from Rs 15,000 to Rs 25,000 from 17 September, so a capped employee's deduction can climb from Rs 1,800 to Rs 3,000 a month. The Labour Ministry has told employers they cannot recover the extra cost from that employee's salary.
Samsung, Vivo, Xiaomi and Haier have stretched no-cost instalments to as long as 30 months and are carrying 8 to 18 per cent interest, because prices rose 16 per cent and buyers pulled back.
The month carried a Gulf escalation, high oil and the first US rate increase since 2023, and the domestic price fell anyway, to Rs 1,47,888 per 10 grams. Silver lost more, and the reason sits in US bond yields.
India's largest public offer faces the market's longest losing run since 2001. Most of the money raised repays the telecom arm's debt, and foreign investors are selling listed shares while buying new ones.
E-commerce, quick commerce and logistics need between 2.5 lakh and 2.7 lakh seasonal workers, up from 2.16 lakh, while 35 per cent of employers say they cannot find enough applicants.
The bill falls on merchants, not on the person holding the phone: 0.4 per cent on UPI payments above Rs 2,000 from 15 October, with the small ones left alone.
NSE's ban file for the 5 October session lists 3 securities. While a stock is in the ban no fresh F&O positions can be opened, and the exit condition is not the same as the entry one.
Foreign investors sold ₹9,484.22 crore and domestic institutions bought ₹10,041.84 crore across the NSE, BSE and MSEI cash markets. Underneath those two numbers is ₹74,802.98 crore of gross trading, about 134 times the net.
Allianz's Global Wealth Report 2026 puts Indian household financial assets at $5.3 trillion after a 9 per cent rise, against $1.59 trillion of liabilities that rose 14.3 per cent, so net wealth grew only 6.8 per cent.
Small savings rates are reviewed each quarter against government bond yields plus a fixed spread. The 10-year yield rose 43 basis points since June. Every post office rate stayed where it was.
The rupee crossed 96 to the dollar this week. The same currency move is already sitting on a shelf, where cooking oil is up between 14 and 19.5 per cent.
Reliance BP and Nayara have started limiting how much diesel one customer can buy, because industrial buyers found retail fuel cheaper than bulk. The state-owned majors, which sell about 90 per cent of India's fuel, have not followed.
Roughly 31,000 equity-linked markets have drawn more than $220 million on Polymarket International, and Kalshi runs about 2,500 markets a day on indexes and corporate events. The fight is over whether the CFTC or the SEC owns them.
Augment Infrastructure's affiliate sold 85.02 lakh shares for about Rs 1,095.93 crore through NSE bulk deals, taking the fund's stake down to 2.25% and handing three institutions a stake-building window in one session.
An investment bankers' body says the IPO queue is three and a half times what has already been raised this year. The same week, the index closed at a six-month low.
One tracker says the year has already passed all of 2025. Another counts a different country, a different industry, and leaves out the biggest name. The gap is the point.
The MPC raised the policy rate by 25 basis points and shifted to calibrated tightening, saying rate cuts are off the table in the near term.
Walmart, Southwest Airlines and Western Digital are on the list. The share of Indian men on top US boards has tripled since 2018 — and the pipeline looks a lot like the CEO bench.
After a seventh straight weekly drop left the Nifty near 23,140, a shortened session calendar collides with Brent still above $104, US 10-year yields above 5.1%, foreign cash selling, and a rupee stuck in a tight band.
The pan-European index closed 0.4 per cent higher on Friday for a 0.5 per cent weekly gain, its strongest week since early August, while energy fell and airlines and banks led.
Petrol and diesel did not move on 26 September across metros, even as ICRA put daily marketing losses at Rs 530 crore and the Indian crude basket had already hit 117.4 dollars a barrel.