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World Leaders Lay Out Tests for Obama
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Real Estate:
US Home Price Drops Set Records in Jan.
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Home Prices: Low, But Still No Bargain
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US MBA’s Mortgage Applications Index Rose 3 Percent Last Week
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Record £8 Billion Put Into Housing Equity
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Boston's Hancock Tower sells at nearly half price
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Comstock Homebuilding may seek bankruptcy protection
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Developer Rhodes seeks Chapter 11 bankruptcy
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Health Care:
Walgreen Giving Free Care to Jobless and Uninsured
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Insurance:
The Executive Who Brought Down AIG
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Congress Seeks AIG Reports
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AIG controversy trickling down to vendors, suppliers
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Liberty Cuts CEO Hemphill's Bonus by 25% as Profit Slides
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Retailing:
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Gottschalks Close-Out; 59 Stores, 5.2M SF
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Gottschalks employees face job loss
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Borders doesn't expect more layoffs, trying to avoid bankruptcy
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Al Baskin seeks final OK to tap cash
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General Growth feels the walls closing in
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Credit Cards:
Senate Banking Panel Approves Bill Reining in Credit-Card Rates
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Liquidations:
Liquidation Of Troubled Businesses: Chapter 11 Liquidations Increasing
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Fraud:
Judge freezes assets of Madoff sons, executives
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Affidavit: Madoff associates knew of scheme, joined anyway
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Fairfield Greenwich’s Assets Frozen in Madoff-Related Case
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Peter Madoff Entered Asset Freeze Accord With US in December
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Telecoms:
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Verizon, AT&T May Tell U.S. on $7.2 Billion Broadband Stimulus: Keep It
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RVs:
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Distressed Investing:
Apollo, Colony May Start Funds for Geithner’s Toxic-Asset Plan
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Municipalities:
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California sales tax rises to almost 9 percent
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Houston plans own stimulus
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Furniture:
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Valuation:
The impact of the credit crisis on valuations
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Ethanol:
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Global Trade Collapse Smacks Industrial Companies
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Buy-out writedowns hurt Apollo
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Retiree Group to Vote Against Verizon CEO's Pay
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Union Workers Defend Rick Wagoner, GM CEO's Retirement at $20 Million
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New General Motors CEO Fritz Henderson won't cut his salary to $1
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Mass Torts:
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Music :
Troubled SeeqPod Files For Bankruptcy Protection
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Directories:
Yellow pages publisher Idearc files for bankruptcy
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Lehman:
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Newspapers:
Sun-Times Media Group Files for Bankruptcy
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Many newspaper chains struggling
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Media:
Judge approves motions in Charter bankruptcy
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Gambling:
Riviera misses interest payment, warns of possible bankruptcy
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Station Casinos sees revenues slip in year, quarter
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Nevada casino companies see revenues slide
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Resorts:
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Promontory to be auctioned in April
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Baseball:
Yankees, Mets feel the credit crunch
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Layoffs:
Job losses to top 50m, unions warn
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Chrysler's financial arm sheds 80 jobs
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Cardinal Health to Cut 1,300 Jobs at Clinical Unit
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3M Cutting Worldwide Work Force by 1,200 More Jobs
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Workers Detain French Tycoon
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Video Games:
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Finance:
Hayek, the True Sale Doctrine, and the Origins of the Financial Crisis
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Securitization's undeserved bad reputation
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Microlenders Widen Their Client Base
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Boating:
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Awards:
Randall L. Klein Inducted as Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy
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UK:
British Factory Activity Contracted At Slower Pace In March
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Lloyd's warns of rise in lawsuits against business
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UK Households Step Up Debt Repayments as Recession Deepens
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Landsbanki Says HSBC Sold Its Debenhams Stake Without Consent
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Warning of insolvencies in the logistics sector
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EU:
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Asia:
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Syndicated Loans Slumped 64% in Asia Ex-Japan in First Quarter
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Canada:
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More than 300 Nortel staff sacked without redundancy payout
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Japan:
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Japanese business confidence hits record low
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Japan outlines new stimulus plan
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Germany:
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German February Machine Orders Slump 49%, VDMA Cuts Forecast
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German Retail Sales Unexpectedly Fall as Unemployment Gains Fan Job Fears
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Russia:
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China:
Chinese Economy Sends Mixed Signals
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Bulgaria:
Bulgaria is in danger of bankruptcy
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Nigeria:
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