Standalone health insurers will keep taking share unless general insurers sharpen pricing and distribution fast.

This is a meaningful shift in where insurance growth is concentrating. It could force general insurers to rethink pricing, product mix and distribution while giving health-focused players more room to expand.

The RBI’s next move will depend on whether core inflation keeps rising faster than headline CPI.

Rate stability matters for borrowers and markets, but the bigger signal is interpretive: the RBI may be preparing the ground for a different policy reaction if underlying inflation firms.

Brent stays volatile as Iran ties Hormuz reopening to sanctions relief and U.S. concessions.

The Strait of Hormuz remains one of the world’s most important energy chokepoints. Any delay, caveat or breakdown in talks can ripple through crude prices, fuel costs and inflation expectations far beyond the Gulf.

Markets will keep parsing RBI language for signs core inflation is becoming the real policy anchor.

A rate hold is one thing; a change in the RBI’s inflation framework is another. If markets think the central bank is quietly reweighting core inflation, future policy expectations, bond yields and borrower sentiment could all move.