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Business Today brings you quotes from newsmakers this past fortnight.

"It was a time when your forefathers did what was necessary. Today, times have changed, and opportunities await for you here in India. The world is now looking with great expectations at India"

Narendra Modi, Prime Minister, at the opening of the 13th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, in Mint

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"Now that we've got some calmer waters, if we all pitch in, then we can make sure that this rising tide is actually lifting all the boats, not just some"

 

Barack Obama, US President, on his country's economic revival, to PTI

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"The bulls have been caught on the wrong foot after a very, very long time and there will be further unwinding..."

 

Ambareesh Baliga, market analyst, after the Sensex crashed almost 900 points, in The Economic Times

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"The bottom for the oil price is a mirage. It's more important, just as it was during the crash to $30 a barrel five years ago, to recognise the slump is irrational exuberance and prices will recover"

 

Eugen Weinberg, Head, Commodities Research, Commerzbank AG in Frankfurt, to Bloomberg