India’s Foreign-Exchange Reserves Reached $740.803 Billion: What the RBI Data Actually Show
Official figures for 28 August record an $11.475-billion weekly rise, led by foreign-currency assets and gold India’s foreign-exchange reserves stood…
World Food Prices Rose Across Every Major Group in August 2026; Sugar Recorded the Sharpest Increase
FAO’s latest completed monthly dataset shows a 1.9% rise in the headline index and an 11.9% jump in sugar International…
UPI Timeline: From 21 Banks to More than 23 billion Transactions a Month
NPCI states that the UPI pilot was launched on 11 April 2016 by then RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan. The next…
UPI’s Overseas Network
Country Current documented linkage First live Bhutan P2M Jul 2021 Singapore P2M + P2P via PayNow Aug 2021 / Feb…
UPI vs Pix: How India and Brazil Built Two Instant-Payment Giants — and Where They Differ
India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and Brazil’s Pix have become two of the most consequential experiments in instant digital payments.…
Nuclear Energy Capacity: World’s Top Countries
Five countries—the United States, France, China, Russia and South Korea—accounted for 71% of the world’s nuclear generation capacity, according to…
RBI Draws $56.85 Billion in Forex Inflows, Shortens FCNR(B) Swap Window as Reserves Cross $700 Billion
India’s strongest data-led domestic economic story is sitting inside a short RBI press release. The Reserve Bank of India said…
Strait of Hormuz Near Standstill: Oil Rises as the World’s Critical Energy Chokepoint Tightens Again
The latest shipping numbers from the Strait of Hormuz show why the passage remains one of the central variables for…
Inflation at 4.45%, trade deficit at $31.98 billion: reading India’s July macro dashboard
India received two important pieces of July economic data within roughly 24 hours, and together they show an economy facing…
US inflation sends a new Fed signal: producer prices stall after July CPI cools
America has now received two major inflation readings in two days, and neither produced evidence of an immediate new inflation…