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India’s shadow banks dread builder bankruptcies

Just a year ago, India’s third-largest mortgage lender was bragging about how it had shrunk its financing costs by replacing bank loans with market borrowings. Now, Dewan Housing Finance Corp. is confronting the fallout of that seemingly clever strategy, one that many of its peers face as well: a dangerously high exposure to India’s struggling developers. At the end of ...

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Equal opportunity recovery weans the S&P 500 of its megacap habit

Bloomberg As stock rebounds go, this one has been big, sudden, and decidedly broad, with signs megacap titans are relaxing the stranglehold in which they’ve held the S&P 500 for two years. While the rally took a breather last week, it remains the best annual start for US equities in almost three decades, with $1.7 trillion added to share values. ...

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Bond traders facing deja vu of risks from shutdown to inflation

Bloomberg Treasuries traders may get a feeling of deja vu next week — they’ll be contending with some familiar geopolitical risks as they also absorb key economic data that could help solidify expectations for Federal Reserve policy. Brexit negotiations, trade talks and the specter of another US government shutdown loom against the backdrop of growing concern over the global economy. ...

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