Law:
Bankruptcy Boutiques Are ‘Quietly Booming’
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Day Pitney Axes 29 Staff in 3rd Round of Announced Layoffs This Year
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Akerman Senterfitt Won’t Charge Leave Time for Swine Flu Absences
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Matthew Feldman Returns to Willkie after Serving as Chief Legal Advisor to Treasury’s Automobile Advisory Team
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Home Court Showdown at the Supreme Court
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Litigation Practices Showing Signs of Life, Says Hildebrandt Study
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Powell Law Firm Dropped as Defendant in Kids-for-Cash Case
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Goodwin Procter and Boston Globe Need to Work on Their Timing
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Goldman Envy Comes to the Legal Profession
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Bankruptcy Lawyer Unleashes Vulcan Intellect?
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Ex-SEC lawyer pleads guilty in NY Marc Dreier case
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Rothstein in Upbeat Mood, Says He’s Smoking Cigars with His Lawyer
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Lawyer Scott Rothstein's quick rise to life of a high roller ends even faster
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Feds Seize Bank Stock, Luxury Cars Owned by Ousted Law Firm Chairman
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Miller South Lawyers Back to Work After Going on Lockdown on Friday
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Firm Sues Fired Associate Who Launched Firm Gripe Site
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Madoff’s Prosecutor Is Joining Cleary Firm
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My Job Is Murder: Of Confinement and Contracts
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From Mayer Brown to Bucharest: A Chat with Mark Gitenstein
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Mayer Brown's Touch-Up Job
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Ashurst streamlines US strategy with six-firm list
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Houston lawyers' holiday plans - the sober & the grandiose
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Secret Details of Litigation Financing Deal Emerge
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Will Meetings of the Future Be Televised?
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Federal Judge Calls Courtroom Tweets Banned Broadcasts Under Rule 53
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Should professional considerations be put ahead of personal relationships in the quest for job satisfaction?
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Police Pay Informant to Frequent Prostitutes. Court Cries Foul.
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"Bubble butt with brains." Anyone?
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Say What?!
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Judges:
Justices Take Comedic Shots at Bilski Lawyer
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Court Nixes Ex-Judge’s Effort to End Alimony After Retirement
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Board Games: Refusal to Leave Corporate World Costs Judge His Job
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Judge Reprimanded for Ex-Defendant Friendship
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Court won't hear case with conflict question
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Wall Street:
US Stock-Index Futures Decline
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Dow jumps to highest level in more than a year
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Dow Closes Weirdly High
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Greenspan Says Stock Rebound `Re-Liquifying' U.S. Economy After Stimulus
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Layoffs:
National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Rosenberg: Unemployment May Hit 13%
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Sprint Nextel Plans to Trim Another 2,500 Jobs
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Electronic Arts Plans to Cut 1,500 Jobs
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Pfizer cutting 15% of its research staff, 6 centers
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Layoff euphemisms
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The Recession’s Over, but Not the Layoffs
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Requests Rise for Jobless-Aid Program
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Blaming the President for Unemployment
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ARS:
A Way Out of the Deep Freeze
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DIP Finance:
Tennenbaum Capital: Buying Into the DIPs
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Trucking:
YRC Worldwide launches debt-for-stock swap, seen as last step to avoid bankruptcy
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Symphonies:
Time To Face The Music
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Silenced symphony sounds an alarm
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Television:
Gray Swings to $10 Million Loss
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Banking:
Fed Says All Banks Except GMAC Met Capital Deadline Imposed by Stress Test
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With Feds, BofA's Lewis Met His Match
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HSBC and Barclays See Differing Results in Earnings and Loan Provisions
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FDIC's 20% Shorter 'Merit' Reviews Preceded Banking Failures
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Fed's Tarullo Says Dividing Banks May Not Curb Too Big to Fail
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Any Takers For TARP II?
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Banks' Commercial Loan "Nightmare"
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Sullivan & Cromwell' Cohen says the abolition of Glass-Steagall was not responsible for the financial crisis.
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BofA in Civil War Over Lewis' Successor
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Feds Weren't the Only Thing That Drove Ken Lewis to the Edge
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Merrill flinch
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Theme Parks:
More Flags, No Fun
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Agriculture:
The New Dust Bowl
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Economy:
Economists Seek to Fix a Defect in Data That Overstates the Nation’s Vigor
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Washington is Swallowing the Economy
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Some Countries Are Stopping Their Stimulus
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Stop the Jobless Recovery Madness
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Berkshire Says Credit Crisis 'Abated' as Profit Jumps
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Economic forecasts in bank tests miss their mark
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G-20 Splits on Tobin Tax, Signals Banks Must Foot Bill of Future Bailouts
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AIG May Be Able to Pay Back Fed Loan, Moody's Says
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Fed: GMAC will still need more bailout money
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UCBH failure likely spells second TARP loss
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Economic Stress Index
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Economy Tracker Map
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US Debt Clock
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Recovery Index
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Real Estate:
Tishman Nears Restructuring, Sale of Stuyvesant Town
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$3B Stuy-Town mortgage goes to special servicer
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More Lenders Raise Prime Mortgage Standards: Fed
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Existing-home sales rise in Chicago area
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Negative-Equity Percentage Fell In Q3
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46% of South Florida homeowners are `underwater'
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Citi's Mortgage Workouts Outnumber Foreclosures in Missouri by 9 to 1
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2010 Will Be Buyers' Market for Commercial Real Estate
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Commercial Real Estate: How This Bust Is Different
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Wilbur Ross: Commercial Real Estate Is Next Shoe to Drop
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SunCal Picks Up 1072 Residential Lots for $20M
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Developer Milt Barbis files for bankruptcy
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Is Congress Creating Another Housing Bubble?
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Closings/Cutbacks/Bankruptcies/Defaults
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Fraud:
Fortuna Told U.S. Judge He Was Tipped by ‘Several Individuals’
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Ex-SEC lawyer pleads guilty in NY Marc Dreier case
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HealthSouth shareholders buy Richard Scrushy's Lake Martin properties
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Petters' attorneys lose bid for mistrial
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A scandal rocks the polo set
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JPMorgan Blamed in $200M Ponzi Scam
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Put Yourself in Ruth Madoff's Shoes
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Bernie's bidder end
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Newspapers:
Sober Mood at New York Post as Circulation Spirals Lower
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Magazines:
Metropolitan Home Magazine to Close Down
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Credit Counseling:
Few Get Major Debt Relief From Settlement Firms
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Newspapers:
Star Tribune to cut about 100 jobs
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Metals:
Foundry will be auctioned
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Corporate Reform:
NY Jurors to Get Case at Hedge Trial
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At Bear Trial, A Question of Venue
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Munger Tolles Seeks to Dismiss $4 Million SEC 'Clawback' Suit Against Ex-CEO
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Private Equity:
Private Equity, Debt Worries
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IP:
Supreme Court skeptical of patents for hedging
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Compensation:
JPMorgan lifts salary freeze
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Record Bonuses Return to Wall Street as Big Three May Award $29.7 Billion
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Oil/Gas:
Peak oil closer than IEA forecasts show: report
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Radio:
Citadel Broadcasting Discloses Chapter 11 Plans
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Sirius' Hopes Keep Slipping Away
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Building Materials:
BioBased Partners Wrangle Over Bankruptcy
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Debt Collection:
FDCPA Lawsuits Soar Year-To-Year
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Complaints Against Debt Collectors Rack Up in Fla.
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Lehman:
Sullivan & Cromwell's Cohen on Lehman's failure
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Accounting:
Jim Quigley Couldn't Wait to Tell Everyone That Deloitte Will Be the New Auditor of Satyam
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PwC Tax Practice Eyeing Utilization
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Layoff Watch '09: Ernst & Young
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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:
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Prepacks:
"Prepackaged" bankruptcies tripled in past year
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Central District of California Filings Break 10,000 in October, 2009
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Autos:
Turnabout on Opel shows GM can change
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Chrysler reportedly offers more buyouts
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Lear Exits Four-Month Bankruptcy as Debt Holders Accept Equity
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New Lear Is 'Tighter, Leaner'
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Unions control Detroit's future
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AutoNation CEO Sees Depressed Sales Through 2011
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GM CEO Henderson in Germany discussing Opel future
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Magna not on the lookout for new alliance
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Merkel presses GM for Opel restructuring plan, says company should pay the cost
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Gambling:
As earnings fall, Riviera unsure if bankruptcy can be avoided
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Hard Rock, parent of Riviera post losses
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Finance:
Advanta president Rosoff explains leadup to bankruptcy
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Bankruptcy filing is a blow to small business
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Credit Won't Lead The Recovery
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Confusion on Where Money Lent via Kiva Goes
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Fewer banks tightening lending standards: Fed
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J.P. Morgan says it will boost small business lending
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Religion:
Did Christianity Cause the Crash?
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Lead Us Not Into Debt
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God's Other Banker
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Municipalities:
Paterson: New York State Will Be Broke Before Christmas
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California's Golden Age is Over
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Health Care:
$29K for 5 Minutes in the ER Raises Health Care Questions
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As Bids Submitted for Forum's Assets, Nurses Union Urges Public Involvement
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Mount Vernon Hospital struggles
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AARP is 100 percent correct
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Mass Torts:
San Francisco's asbestos court
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Advertising:
BBDO Signals End to Chrysler Relationship, Its Detroit Office
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Skiing:
Elk Meadows ski resort on auction block
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Enron:
"Enron" vs "Jerusalem" at London Standard theatre awards
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A discussion of the Skilling appeal
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Aviation:
Govt plans pension cuts, bridge loan in JAL rescue
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ACE gives Air Canada deadline for repayment
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Derivatives:
David Einhorn vs the bloggers on credit default swaps
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Corporate Governance:
Ex-CEOs Lend Struggling Companies a Hand
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Personal Finance:
Recession Prompts Americans to Make Huge Sacrifices :)
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Boating:
Jacobs clears deck for Genmar bid
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Sovereigns:
Which big country will default first?
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UK:
Financial Regulations Chief Chides British Banks
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British Tour Firms Facing Bankruptcy
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London Economy Grows Most Since 2006, Leads U.K. Regions Out of Recession
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Up to a third of First Quench stores were under par says KPMG chief
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Maclaren riding into receivership, again?
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Canada:
Industrial profits to fall more than 20%
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Japan:
Japan faces risk of ratings downgrade over debt
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Japan Corporate Bankruptcies Fall For Third Month
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Germany:
German ZEW dulls rapid recovery hopes
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