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The IMF pegs global growth at 3.1% for 2026 — a tidy single figure that hides a world pulling apart. India runs at 7%, the Middle East and Central Asia region contracts 0.3%, and the euro area crawls at 1.1%. Here's how to read a divergence this wide.

Government data released today put India's retail inflation at 5.54% for September, up from 4.83% a month earlier. The headline moved; the food basket moved almost twice as hard.