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India flies blind into budget as GDP remains a guessing game

  Bloomberg Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration will probably have to prepare India’s $300 billion budget in the dark. With less than a month to go before the annual presentation, his Statistics Office has refused to estimate the impact of Modi’s unprecedented cash clampdown on gross domestic product. All it said on Friday was that growth will slow to a ...

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Volvo Cars plans to export half of new US plant’s output

    Bloomberg Volvo Car Group, owned by a Chinese billionaire since 2010, plans to export half of a new South Carolina factory’s output to Asia and Europe. The company plans to build 60,000 S60 sedans in Charleston initially then expand to 100,000, Hakan Samuelsson, Volvo Cars’ chief executive officer, said at a dinner at the North American International Auto ...

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Asia millionaires fund Europe soccer teams in hunt for yield

  Bloomberg Wealthy Asian investors unwilling to splurge on owning their own European soccer teams are showing their enthusiasm by helping fund the sport. Sales of football finance notes, backed by television rights of soccer clubs, doubled to $11 million last month from the amount issued in April, when they were opened to investors in the region, according to data ...

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