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Welcome to the Views Room, a weekly podcast brought to you by Reuters Breaking Views.

I'm Rob Cox, coming to you from my home in Zurich, Switzerland.

This week, we will board the magic carpet and visit Bombay, Brooklyn, and London

to visit with three breaking views columnists. First up is Yunegalani, our India editor, to discuss

that rare commodity of the COVID-19 era, a multi-billion dollar cross-border deal. That would be

Facebook's purchase of a near $6 billion stake in Reliance industry's digital arm.

Not only is it a rare deal, it comes as India is reassessing the sources of foreign direct investment.

That's code for basically asking whether it wants Chinese capital.

Next, we're going to visit with George Hay, who's been writing about all the weird shizzle taking

place in the global

oil markets. West Texas crude went to negative territory earlier in the week. That's weird.

It's a fluke. But the outlook for crude, what it means for producers, global economies, and geopolitics

is a huge matter for the world. Finally, Anna Schumansky and I will discuss the U.S.

Treasury's Paycheck Protection Program, the PPP, which is a scheme to help small businesses continue to pay workers during the coronavirus lockdowns.

The original slug of $349 billion went quickly and not without a bit of controversy.

Anna and I discussed where the next $320 billion, which was appropriated by Congress this week,

will flow.

Happy listening.

Hello, Mumbai. Hi, you, Nicalani. How are things in India?

Lockdown, lovely.

People really are abiding by the rules still in Mumbai. Is that right? Yeah, I mean, it's a bit mixed,

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