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Can India punish Rajat Gupta?

The recent conviction of Rajat Gupta, former McKinsey boss and Goldman Sachs director, for insider trading marks a disappointing low in the high-profile career of the Indian-American Wall Street executive whose meteoric rise in the American corporate world had served as an inspiration to many.

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Japan economy faces same risks as Europe: PM

TOKYO — Japan faces the same risks that plague financially-embattled European states, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda warned on Saturday, days after he pushed through a divisive tax bill to chip away at the country’s mountainous debt.

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Corn up most since 2008, soy surges on US drought

US corn futures on Friday posted their biggest weekly gain since 2008 while soybeans capped their sharpest monthly rise in more than three years, as nagging drought in America’s heartland overshadowed a government report showing farmers planted larger crops than expected this year.

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