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Bharti Airtel raises $3 billion to pay fee due in a week

Bloomberg Bharti Airtel Ltd, an Indian wireless carrier, raised $3 billion from the sale of shares and bonds to help pay government fees falling due in about a week. The New Delhi-based company, which was ordered by the nation’s top court to pay $3 billion in airwaves and license fees, raised $2 billion from a so-called qualified institutional placement, according ...

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$453bn bond manager shifts bets from India amid tensions

Bloomberg Western Asset Management Co is reducing its Indian government bond holdings as tensions around a new citizenship law and the Kashmir region cloud the economic outlook. The $453 billion investor, an affiliate of Legg Mason Inc, is diverting some of its funds into longer-dated Malaysian and Chinese debt, according to Desmond Soon, head of investment management for Asia ex-Japan. ...

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India plans incentives to woo Apple suppliers

Bloomberg India is considering a plan to offer subsidised loans to mobile handset manufacturers in a bid to attract Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co’s suppliers to open factories in the nation, said a government official. The proposals by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology includes offering interest subsidy on local borrowing by manufacturers, may form part of the ...

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