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India refiners halt Venezuela oil imports

Bloomberg India’s largest private refinery halted purchases of Venezuelan oil, putting additional pressure on the Latin American country’s beleaguered oil industry. Reliance Industries Ltd, which runs the biggest refinery in the world in Jamnagar and accounted for 25% of Venezuela’s exports last year, has no plans at the moment to make future purchases, according to people with knowledge of the ...

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A Biden presidency may be what markets need

Joe Biden’s growing lead in the presidential polls combined with recent stock-market turbulence has some Wall Street observers wondering if markets are getting nervous about the odds of Democratic victories in November. This anxiety among investors may very well be misplaced, reflecting old and off-base stereotypes of what the two political parties are trying to accomplish. Just as investors were ...

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PE loves Virgin Australia for its loyalty

What could possibly attract Bain Capital about an airline that hardly ever generates cash? Loyalty is almost certain to be the answer. Administrators for Virgin Australia Holdings Ltd at Deloitte agreed to sell the second-ranked Australian airline to the private equity firm after it collapsed in April owing A$6.8 billion ($4.7 billion). In a sign of what a difficult path ...

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