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Vodafone’s Indian escape route

  It’s hard to remember India being anything other than a nuisance for Vodafone Group Plc. The group has taken writedowns of 6.6 billion pounds ($8.3 billion) on the asset since buying it in 2007, and got itself tangled up in a long tax fight with the Indian government. Lately it’s been gored by Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Ltd., whose ...

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Trump’s new move to hit closer to home for USA tech industry

  Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s clash with Silicon Valley over immigration is about to become even more contentious. After the new president banned refugees and travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries, Google, Facebook, Salesforce, Microsoft and others railed against the move, saying it violated the country’s principles and risked disrupting its engine of innovation. Trump’s next steps could strike even ...

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France economic growth accelerates, stoking debate on ECB tapering

  Bloomberg French growth accelerated in the fourth quarter as part of a wider economic expansion in the region that is fueling a debate about how quickly the European Central Bank should trim stimulus. Gross domestic product rose 0.4 percent in the October-December period, national statistics office Insee said. That matches the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey and compares ...

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