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TOKYO: Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda on Tuesday ruled out the chance of tightening monetary policy or withdrawing stimulus to deal with any rise in inflation driven by soaring fuel costs, stressing the need to wait for wage growth to pick up. The crisis in Ukraine pushed oil prices to 14-year highs, heightening the chance consumer inflation will approach the central bank’s 2% target as early as next month. But with inflation expectations and wage growth still low, rising energy and commodity costs would have a negative impact on Japan’s economy, Kuroda told parliament, when asked how the BOJ could respond if inflation exceeds its 2% target. “It’s inappropriate to deal with (such a rise in inflation) by scaling back stimulus or tightening monetary policy,” he said. Kuroda said the BOJ was seeking to achieve moderate inflation accompanied by rising wages and corporate profits. “If crude oil and commodity prices drive up inflation while wage growth remains slow, that would hit households’ real income and corporate profits, and hurt the economy,” he said. “Such conditions won’t lead to sustainable achievement of 2% inflation,” Kuroda said, stressing the need to keep monetary policy ultra-loose for the time being.

London''s FTSE 100 stock index fell on Tuesday, reflecting a gloom in global markets, as soaring crude prices due to a potential ban on Russian oil imports raised the spectre of runaway inflation and slowing economic growth.

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The message came a day after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told NBC the US was discussing a ban on Russian oil with Europe.

CNG price in the national capital and adjoining cities on Tuesday was hiked by Rs 0.50 per kg, while an imminent increase in petrol and diesel price has been put on wait-and-watch mode for more clarity on global oil prices.

The war in Ukraine has sent markets into a panic because the West is so reliant on Russia for its energy, which brings in at least £100billion-a-year for the Kremlin to finance its invasion and occupation.

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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations and Yemen’s Houthi rebels have signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at resolving the environmental threat posed by a tanker carrying more than 1 million barrels of crude oil that has been moored off the coast of the war-torn Arab nation since the 1980s, the U.N. said Monday. The FSO Safer tanker’s long-term presence in the Red Sea has raised fears of a massive oil spill or explosion that could cause an environmental catastrophe. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the U.N. mission in Yemen “confirmed that the risk of imminent catastrophe is very real indeed, as we have been saying here for quite some time.” Under the MOU, a short-term solution would transfer the oil from the Safer to another ship, along with a longer-term solution, he said. But the MOU, dated March 5, makes clear the proposal’s implementation is contingent on mobilizing donor funds. Yemen has been convulsed by civil war since 2014, when Iranian-backed Houthi rebels took control of the capital and much of the country’s north, forcing the government to flee to the south, then to Saudi Arabia.

The price of a barrel of Azerbaijan''s Azeri LT CIF oil in the world market has increased by $9.93 or 8.36% to $128.71 per barrel, Report informs.

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Oil rose to a 14-year high of $139 a barrel on Monday amid concerns… The post OPEC meets US shale executives as energy prices soar first appeared on Trading and Investment News .

It was at least the fourth time since 2017 that US shale oil producers and OPEC officials have held such meetings to discuss energy concerns.

Dan Fineman of Credit Suisse tole ET NOW that India is most vulnerable to higher oil prices across Asian markets.

Vladimir Putin''s war and the resulting financial sanctions on his regime have pushed up global oil prices to US$130, the highest level since 2008.

Japan recorded its largest current account deficit since the start of 2014 in January as a jump in oil import costs offset gains in investment income, with uncertainty due to Ukraine war and Covid-19