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India hangs up on future

India’s growth this century has been fuelled by one sector above all: telecommunications. The connectivity revolution has powered India’s information technology behemoths and helped hundreds of millions of young Indians get onto the grid, giving them a chance to improve their prospects. If India is to become the sort of entrepreneurial superstar that its government hopes it will, then the ...

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Tesla is biggest battle on smallest battlefield

Tesla Inc.’s earnings can be viewed as the market’s most intense conflict fought on its smallest battlefield. The third quarter just gone is a prime example. The much-loved and much-shorted stock jumped 28% between last week’s earnings release and October 29 filing of the quarterly 10-Q statement. The $13 billion that added to the market cap was effectively balanced on ...

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Indonesia does its best to scare off investment

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, what is Indonesia playing at? The country announced an immediate halt to exports of nickel ore, sending prices gyrating as traders tried to gauge the impact of a measure that was originally slated for 2022. We’ve been here before: From 2014 to ...

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