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Kenyatta named winner of Kenyan vote as Odinga cries foul

Bloomberg Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta was declared the landslide winner of a chaotic election rerun that his main rival Raila Odinga rejected as a sham. Kenyatta, 56, won 7.48 million votes, or 98.3 percent of the total cast on Oct. 26, Wafula Chebukati, the chairman of the Independent Electoral & Boundaries Commission, said in Nairobi, the capital. The turnout was ...

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China’s inflation flirtation won’t cut debt problem

China is witnessing something most of the world’s major economies haven’t seen in quite some time: rising prices. With growth strong but debt at perhaps 300 percent of gross domestic product, that’s a welcome sign. The danger is that China’s government now hopes inflation will solve its other problems. From 2013 until this year, the GDP deflator, a broad measure ...

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Nomura’s poor quarter is just an aberration, not a trend

Nomura Holdings Inc. may be ruing its international presence right now. It shouldn’t. Low volatility — the bane of global investment banks — caused a slump in fixed-income trading in the three months through September, driving Japan’s biggest brokerage to its first profit decline in five quarters. Net income slid 15 percent to 51.9 billion yen ($457 million), with huge ...

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