Law:

Milbank Tweed Named Counsel to Lehman's Creditors' Committee
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Sign of the Times: Chelsea Clinton at Lehman Bankruptcy Hearing
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Lehman advisers set to be hit in bank's collapse
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Firms Aid in Fed's Bailout of AIG
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Barclays Enters $1.75 Billion Deal to Acquire Lehman Assets With Firms' Help
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The new world
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Locke Lord's Computers Kept Running While Ike Destroyed 65 Offices
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V&E Sustains Less Hurricane Damage than Associate's House
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Picking Up the Pieces
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Heller Ponders Dissolution
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Were Heller's Problems Caused by Term Limits?
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I Vant to be Alone (Or, Unwanted Officemates)
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BigLaw Looking to Lure Laterals by the Lake
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Report: In Wake of Ticket Incident, Lerach Moving to New Prison
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Hurricane Ike: Helping via Hotline
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Meltdown World
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Discovery Disaster Threatens to Derail Case Against Former McAfee GC
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6th Circuit Rules That Rooker-Feldman Does Not Prevent Bankruptcy Court from Declaring that Post-Discharge Judgment is Void Ab Initio
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Facing Big-Firm Rejection
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Supreme Court's Global Influence Is Waning
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Law School Gets $5 Million From Recent Grad's Mom
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Now Playing at Houston's V&E: SpongeBob
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Say What?!
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Judges:

House Panel Opens Judge Impeachment Probe
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Judge In O.J. Simpson Trial Cracks Down
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Wall Street:

Stock Futures Rise on Liquidity Boost, Deal Talk
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Bailout Fails to Stem Global Stock Slump
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Stocks tumble after government bailout of AIG
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Why Wall Street is unraveling
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Where Will All the Bankers Go?
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No T-Bills To Buy?
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The financial crisis Wall Street's bad dream
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US Stocks Plunge as Lending Freezes Up Following AIG Takeover
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SEC Stiffens Short-Selling Rules Amid Market Turmoil
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Gold posts biggest 1-day gain ever
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AIG Leads 'Unlucky 13' Stocks to $1 Trillion Loss
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"A rising tide of writedowns"
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Finance houses in a rush to link
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Morgan Stanley Tries to Halt Slide
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Big hedge funds reassess M Stanley risk
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Wall Street survivors under fire
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Money Market Funds Enter a World of Risk
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Wall Street losing faith in banks
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Politics:

Congress May Adjourn, Leave Crisis to Fed, Treasury
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In Washington, Financial Furor Is a First-Rate Chance to Assess Blame
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AIG Bailout Causes More Jitters on Capitol Hill
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McCain, Obama Both Oppose Bailout Of AIG Management
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Memo to Obama and McCain
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Bunning Condemns AIG Bailout
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Biden calls paying higher taxes a patriotic act
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McCain scolds Wall Street, supports automaker loans
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McCain says government 'forced' to bail out AIG
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The Ad Campaign McCain, on the Economy
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Palin says she's disappointed by another bailout
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Senate to stay in session to deal with market crisis
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Dodd Says the Fed Has Authority to Set Up Debt Fund
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Reid Says 'No One Knows What to Do' to Solve Crisis
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Derivatives:

AIG and the Derivative Nightmare
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Deutsche Bank Limits Credit Swaps Adding to Bank Risk
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Banking:

Federal bank insurance fund dwindling
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Washington Mutual Up for Auction
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Morgan Stanley Considers Merger With Wachovia
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Mor-chovia?
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WaMu's New Chief Knows The Subprime Business
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Ratings Agencies:

It's Time for 'We Hit an Iceberg' Credit Ratings
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Real Estate:

Housing Starts at 17-Year Low in August
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Sales up, prices down as foreclosures flood Southern California ...
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FHFA Appoints New Fannie and Freddie Chairmen
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Government's Freddie, Fannie takeover could benefit Black borrowers
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Banks Jettison Commercial-Property Debt
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Applications to refinance home mortgages surge
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Boston Properties shares taking a pounding
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More Pain Coming for South FL Markets
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Questions Surround FHA's Push into Troubled Mortgages
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Insurance:

With Fed's $85 Billion Loan, A.I.G. Starts to Calculate a Measured Sell-Off
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Regulator group formed to aid sale of AIG assets
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Unheard Pleas, Lost Chances Pushed Ailing AIG to Brink
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NY Gov. Paterson, Dinallo help seal AIG loan
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AIG spurned Allianz, J.C. Flowers
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AIG Bailout: Its Value in Common Sense Terms
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AIG businesses for sale as Fed bailout buys time
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AIG's brush with bankruptcy stuns Asian investors
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Greenberg, His Firms Lost Almost $6 Billion on AIG
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AIG Falls on Concern Shareholders Will Be Wiped Out
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Post AIG, Insurers Ponder
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Severe terms pries open purse strings
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This greed was beyond irresponsible
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AIG Directors Sued by Pension Fund Seeking to Recover Losses
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Conseco sinks after revealing Lehman, AIG holdings
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Insurance may see Ike's surge
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Lehman:

Risky Real Estate Deals Helped Doom Lehman
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Lehman's Shotgun Wedding Set for Hearing Tomorrow
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Lehman seeks OK for complex procedure
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Possible sale of $32.6 billion of commercial properties
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Lehman creditors seen pushing for swift sale of assets
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VCs Assess Fallout From Lehman Brothers Loss
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Deutsche Delays Samurai Bonds After Lehman Bankruptcy
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Lehman counterparties scramble to stake claims but CSO holders could turn a profit, sources say
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Bank Blowup Will Spur Litigation Boom
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PwC: Lehman staff will be paid
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Barclays Submits Stalking Horse Bid for Lehman's Broker-Dealer Operations of About $5.7 Billion
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Finance:

GM, UBS Short-Term Debt Costs Soar as Money Fund Breaks Buck
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Telecoms:

Nortel Drops Most Since at Least 1980 After Cutting Forecast
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Judge to sort out Prosser case
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Movie Industry:

Focus Enhancement board votes for bankruptcy filing, then resign
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Committees:

Upcoming DE Organizational Meetings
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Tax:

International Tax-Shelter Plot Thickens; Mogul Sues UBS
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Corporate Reform:

The Dawn of the Reregulation Era?
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SEC May Require Disclosure of Hedge Funds' Short-Sale Positions
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SEC cracks down on short selling
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Religion:

Shield on priests' files sought
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Utilities:

EDF Said to Be Out of Running to Buy Constellation
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Lehman bankruptcy could short-circuit Constellation Energy
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ARS:

The ARS Party Continues: Lawsuit Against UBS Proceeds
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Gambling:

Casino Aztar to be auctioned Nov. 18
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Golf:

Negotiations continue to keep open ArrowCreek Country Club
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Municipalities:

Jefferson County's bond insurers sue
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Construction:

Hurd Windows wins use of cash
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
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Bankruptcy Court Web/Pacer Site Directory

Chapter 7, 12 & 13 Private Trustee Locator
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Recent Ch. 11 Filings
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Bankruptcy Jobs:

(1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10)
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Economy:

Henry Paulson's Frankenstein
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The Paulson-Bernanke Doctrine, improvised in crisis
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Three-Month T-Bill Rates Plunge to Lowest Level Since 1950s
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Worst Crisis Since '30s, With No End Yet in Sight
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Abroad, Bailout Is Seen as a Detour From Capitalism
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Bloomberg warns of possible 'next wave' crisis
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Who'll Bail Out Uncle Sam?
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America will need a $1,000bn bail-out
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Are the Government's Bailouts Hurting the Economy?
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A Big Unknown: Cost of Bailouts
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Central Banks Offer Extra Funds to Calm Money Markets
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Changing the rules of the game
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Fed may find more at its door
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Welcome to The Impasse
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Can Bailout Capitalism Work?
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Current account deficit widens to 5.1% of GDP
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Fraud:

Scam Targeted Towards Some Bankruptcy Debtors
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Autos:

Federal Aid to Detroit Seems Likely
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Banks backing Big 3 on loans
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GM and Ford Officials Seeking US Loans to Meet Fuel Goal
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US Sen. leader Reid says auto loans 'very important'
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Auto Supplier Federal Mogul Cuts 4,000 Jobs
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Utilities:

Constellation Shot Down on Credit Worries
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Retailing:

Marty Shoes Inc. closing, files Chapter 11
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Oil/Gas:

Suppliers to SemGroup win ruling
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SemGroup gets more funds
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SemGroup workers gain incentive pay
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Hedge Funds:

A Dark Mood Among Hedge Funds in London
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Trustees:

House Panel Told Trustee Pay Should be Increased
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Newspapers:

Star-Ledger obituary could be written soon
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Aviation:

United Airlines Faces Losses on Its Contracts for Jet Fuel
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Flight Risk
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Easyjet warns of tough times ahead
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Italian minister: Alitalia 'hangs by a thread'
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Credit Cards:

National credit card debt per credit card borrower increased 2.63% sequentially to $1,717 in the second quarter and 8.6%, compared to 2Q/07
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UK:

Bank sees further signs of slowdown
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Global banking's worst nightmare
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Hedge Funds Attack Britain's Biggest Mortgage Bank
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British bank HBOS to join Lloyds
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Footsie climbs after Lloyds rescue
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Insolvency Service laptop theft creates industry response
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BDO says it dealt with XL issues
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Russia:

Russia Gives Banks Cash, Halts Stock Trading to Head Off Crisis
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Financial turmoil accelerates in Russia
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Russian stock market still shut after plunge
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Latin America:

Brazil, Mexico Homebuilders Drop on Credit Concerns
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Japan:

BoJ injects 1,500,000,000,000 yen
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Germany:

'Dumbest' German bank criticized for Lehman transaction
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