Goldman Sees Dust Settling and Deals Emerging in India
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Hi, it's Julia Fioretti in Hong Kong and Baiju Kalesh in Mumbai, chatting with Goldman Sachs' head of India ECM and examining what's happening in markets there. Also, BP's Castrol draws interest from some big names and UBS sells a unit to Cantor.
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