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Jan 17, 2017 - Demonetisation leaves Indian gold lovers no way to buy wedding rings

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The top executives, financiers, academics and politicians making their way up the mountain to the World Economic Forum will be talking a lot about such non-establishment leaders as US President-elect Donald Trump - whose inauguration in Washington occurs on the event's last day - France's National Front chief Marine Le Pen and Italian populist Beppe Grillo of the Five Star Movement. But they won't be meeting them. Not one of the leaders bent on overturning the world order as Davos has designed it will be present. More here

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