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By the first half of June 2020, India's fuel demand was 80–85% of what it was before the lockdown. However the Indian oil minister said that it would take a much longer time for the growth in demand to be restored to pre-COVID-19 levels. [225] Oil prices dropped sharply in 2020 following the COVID-19 pandemic. Demand also fell sharply.
Financial Times [3] terms a double-digit percentage fall in the stock markets over five minutes as a crash, while Jayadev et al. describe a stock market crash in India as a "fall in the NIFTY of more than 10% within a span of 20 days" or "difference of more than 10% between the high on a day and the low on the next trading day" or "decline in ...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's televised address about Coronavirus on 19 March 2020 Modi's address about COVID-19 on 24 March 2020. On 19 March, during a 30-minute live telecast, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked all citizens to observe a 'Janata Curfew' (people's curfew) from 7 am to 9 pm on 22 March. During this curfew he asked ...
On 27 February, due to mounting worries about the coronavirus outbreak, various U.S. stock market indices including the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500 Index, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average posted their sharpest falls since 2008, with the Dow falling 1,191 points, its largest one-day drop since the 2007–2008 financial crisis.
Stocks rose Thursday as investors digested more quarterly earnings results and new data on the labor market's recovery. Stock market news live updates: S&P 500 rises to record close, Dow up 272 ...
The Reserve Bank of India announced that it would conduct $1.35 billion in open market purchases of government bonds, [351] the Bank of Korea announced that it would conduct a ₩1 trillion ($793.5 million) repo auction the following day, [352] and the National Bank of Poland announced that it would conduct open market purchases of government ...
The Dow's losses amount to roughly 3%, or more than 1,500 points, in the past nine trading sessions. The index has fallen from a record close of 45,014 on Dec. 4 to 43,499 as of Tuesday's close.
The first cases of COVID-19 in India were reported on 30 January 2020 in three towns of Kerala, among three Indian medical students who had returned from Wuhan, the epicenter of the pandemic. [10] [11] [12] Lockdowns were announced in Kerala on 23 March, and in the rest of the country on 25 March. Infection rates started to drop in September. [13]