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9 dated calls from the policy coverage · 2 positive · 2 negative · 5 watch
- Positive2026-10-12inferred
worldsteel's 7.9% demand forecast keeps India the fastest-growing major steel market while the sector was among the day's leading gainers
Policy Pulse - Ministries & Regulators - 12 Oct 2026 - Negative2026-10-05
Indian steel already faces Section 232 architecture into the US; a stacked 100% would foreclose the market entirely
Policy Pulse - Global - 05 Oct 2026 - Negative2026-10-05
Indian steel faces both the Section 232 architecture and the pending Section 301 overcapacity remedy. A framework explicitly endorsing tariffs as an "evidence-based action" is not helpful
Policy Pulse - Global - 05 Oct 2026 - Watch2026-10-02
India is inside the Section 301 overcapacity investigation's 16-economy scope. Any remedy would hit Indian steel exports to the US, though India's direct US steel exposure is modest relative to its domestic market
Policy Pulse - Global Spillover - 02 Oct 2026 - Watch2026-10-01
Indian steel would be a target of any overcapacity action, but the same framework protects domestic producers from third-country dumping. The net effect depends on the rate and the product coverage, neither of which exists yet
Policy Pulse - Global Spillover - 01 Oct 2026 - Watch2026-10-01inferred
B.S. Sponge's filing puts a 6.75 lakh tonne per annum sponge iron and 16.27 lakh tonne per annum semi-finished and finished steel operator into the listed market. India is separately weighing scrap import rule changes as recyclers push for port checks ⚠️ inferred
Policy Pulse - Ministries & Regulators - 01 Oct 2026 - Watch2026-09-30
Steel is where India is most exposed to both the Section 232 wall and pending excess-capacity investigations; a G20 framing of "structural excess capacity" is a systemic risk to Indian steel exports, not a benefit
Policy Pulse - Global Spillover - 30 Sep 2026 - Positive2026-09-30inferred
Coking coal is explicitly named in the $500bn basket — US met-coal purchases are the one Indian demand-side commitment in the framework that needs no interpretation ⚠️ inferred
Policy Pulse - Modi / India Govt - 30 Sep 2026 - Watch2026-09-11inferred
Steel is a named agenda item and Russia is a coking-coal supplier; a rupee-settled coal channel would be a cost tailwind
Policy Pulse - PM Modi / India Govt - 11 Sep 2026
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Policy Pulse - Global - 05 Oct 2026
The G7 began a coordinated 100-million-barrel IEA release with a frontloaded diesel leg after Trump's export-ban threat, splitting the crude market - Brent near $101.5 against WTI below $90 and Murban at $110.80 - which is positive for DAL, UAL and INDIGO and negative for VLO and PSX. The Lindsey Graham Act's secondary sanctions on Russian-crude buyers could be decided by October 18, a live risk for RELIANCE, IOC and BPCL, while the US-Ukraine fund's first $30 million minerals deal and China's rare-earth suspension extension to January 2027 lift MP and USAR.
Policy Pulse - Global Spillover - 02 Oct 2026
A 29,000 US payroll print against a 90,000 consensus removed the October Fed hike and reversed the global bond selloff that had driven the 10-year Treasury to a 24-year high — a positive for TCS, INFY and QQQ and a relief valve for emerging markets. Trump said Europe agreed to release emergency diesel stocks, sending Brent below $100 and lifting DAL, UAL, CCL and RCL while pressuring XOM and CVX, even as the Iran ceasefire expired and three Hormuz tankers were struck. G20 Milwaukee produced a steel framework and no China tariff timetable, French spreads hit their widest over Germany since 2012, and Micron's blowout quarter drove a memory-led Asian relief rally.
Policy Pulse - Global Spillover - 01 Oct 2026
G20 trade ministers endorsed a Milwaukee Framework on steel overcapacity as Greer put the MFN principle itself up for review, while a Section 301 overcapacity probe covering 16 economies including India remains the unexercised risk to SUNPHARMA, WELSPUNLIV and BHARATFORG. Brent went back above $100 on China's fuel-export halt, lifting XOM and CVX against DAL and CCL, the US 10-year held near 5.28% after its biggest quarterly gain since 1994, and Micron's blowout quarter drove a 2.9-3.3% Nikkei rally.
Policy Pulse - Ministries & Regulators - 01 Oct 2026
The Finance Ministry cut the diesel and ATF export levy for a second fortnight, positive for IOC, BPCL and RELIANCE, as GST crossed Rs 2 lakh crore for a third month and the manufacturing PMI hit a seven-month high of 55.1. SEBI cleared corporate bond index futures for the NSE, the AMCA prototype RFP closed on 30 October with LT, BEL, BHARATFORG, BEML and DATAPATTNS named in the three shortlisted consortia while HAL did not qualify, and the rupee closed at 96.31 into a live RBI hike risk on October 7.
Policy Pulse - Global Spillover - 30 Sep 2026
The G20 Trade Ministerial opened in Milwaukee on steel excess capacity, MFN erosion and forced labour - the same ground as the Section 301 tariffs under challenge at the Court of International Trade - while core PCE at 3.0% cut October Fed hike odds from 71% to 35% and eased the front end. Saudi Arabia restarted the East-West pipeline and Yanbu loadings, Gulf exports recovered to 23.3 mbpd with Brent near $103, and India kept 0% Section 232 tariffs on specialty drugs, supporting SUNPHARMA and DRREDDY.
Policy Pulse - Modi / India Govt - 30 Sep 2026
The Cabinet approved the Rs 1.86 lakh crore PM-DHARA scheme - 135 GW of renewable evacuation plus 50 GWh of battery storage - as part of a Rs 2.79 lakh crore package with the Rabi MSP policy and a Delhi traffic system, drawing POWERGRID, KEC, KPIL and the transformer and storage complex into focus. Modi also spoke with Trump as Goyal met Greer in Milwaukee on the interim trade deal, the Supreme Court kept the 0.4% UPI MDR on track for October 15, and the Sabarmati LNG train and Kandla e-methanol plant carried the green-fuel push.
Policy Pulse - PM Modi / India Govt - 11 Sep 2026
Modi hosts the 18th BRICS Summit (Sep 12-13) after a bilateral with Putin covering defence, nuclear, fertilisers, critical minerals and railways: HAL is the one named company, with IL-114 and Sukhoi Superjet 100 local manufacturing expanded (BEL, BDL inferred). India's digital-rupee CBDC settlement push lifts HDFCBANK and SBIN; discounted Russian crude at a record 51% import share helps IOC and BPCL.
Policy Pulse — Global Spillover — US-Canada Trade War & Commodity Shifts — 24 Aug 2026
US-Canada 50% tariff trade war escalates; India Sensex -171 to 77,369; metals gain on supply realignment; gold hits 3-month highs; TATASTEEL, JSWSTEEL beneficiaries
Policy Pulse — Ministries & Regulators — 30 Jul 2026
Q1 earnings heavy day: Vedanta +152% PAT, Bajaj Finance +29%, Tata Steel +19%. Nifty Auto +1.63% leads markets. GRSE ₹1,032 Cr order. NLC India 900 MW solar win. FIIs net buyers at ₹2,982 Cr.