How world's fastest-growing oil user India is bucking trend of price cuts

India has, so far, resisted the temptation to give relief to consumers and keeping a close watch on fiscal deficit goals

India, the world’s fastest-growing oil consumer, is bucking an emerging market trend of populist measures to curb surging oil prices.

While governments in Indonesia, Brazil and elsewhere are cutting or freezing prices, India is standing its ground on gasoline and diesel costs even after they rose as much as 16 percent this year.

India has, so far, resisted the temptation to give relief to consumers and keeping a close watch on fiscal deficit goal, a move that helped Prime Minister Narendra Modi win a credit-rating upgrade from Moody’s Investors Service last year. The upshot is an acceleration in inflation that