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India banks reopen to long queues after rupee withdrawal

  New Delhi / AFP Long queues formed outside banks in India on Thursday as they reopened for the first time since the government’s shock decision to withdraw the two largest denomination notes from circulation. Some banks in the capital New Delhi had received the new 2,000 rupee ($30) bill and a number of ATMs were working again, two days ...

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Goldman hails Modi’s note ban

  Bloomberg The rupee rose to a two-month high as foreign investors piled into Indian assets and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said the government’s crackdown on unaccounted wealth will boost the nation’s bonds and currency. In India’s most extensive anti-graft operation in almost four decades, Prime Minister Narendra Modi late Tuesday decided to ban 500 rupee ($7.50) and 1,000 rupee ...

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New Zealand’s RBNZ slashes interest rates again

  Bloomberg New Zealand’s central bank cut interest rates to a fresh record low and said it has probably done enough to return inflation to target as economic growth quickens. “At this stage we think that we won’t need another cut,” Reserve Bank Governor Graeme Wheeler told a news conference in Wellington on Thursday after lowering the official cash rate ...

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