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The diamond tycoon behind India’s alleged $2 billion fraud

Bloomberg The opening of Nirav Modi’s jewellery store on Madison Avenue in the fall of 2015 attracted A-listers from actress Naomi Watts to Donald Trump Jr. It also celebrated the expansion of an Indian business that is now near ruin amid an investigation for an alleged $2 billion fraud. As investigators probe Modi’s alleged use of fake guarantees from the ...

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Trump’s economy awaits tax-cut boost as growth downshifts

Bloomberg The US economy is beginning the year with a downshift in growth despite $1.5 trillion in tax cuts signed by President Donald Trump in December. Unexpectedly weak February retail sales pushed down forecasts for the annualised pace of expansion in the first quarter, with the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s GDPNow tracking estimate at 1.8 percent on March 16, ...

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Facebook suspends Trump election data firm for policy breach

Bloomberg Facebook Inc. suspended Cambridge Analytica, a data company that helped President Donald Trump win the 2016 presidential election and which may have collected data from 50 million Facebook profiles without their owners’ permission. The social-networking company said in a blog post that Cambridge Analytica received some user data through an app developer on its social network, violating its policies. ...

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