October 30, 2009

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Law:

Intel Hires Orrick to Probe Employees' Galleon Leaks
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Skadden to Rep Intel Exec in Insider Trading Scandal
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The fraud hunter
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S&C, Paul Hastings Nab Lead Roles in AIG Bonus Talks
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Ex-Heller Attorney: 'Your Honor, This Stuff Makes No Sense.'
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Treasury aims to spread risk with new roster for credit crunch work
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Judge Rules FTC Cannot Make Lawyers Comply With Identity Theft Laws
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Senate Stalls on Legislation to Rework FTC 'Red Flag' Rules
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SUV crash kills prominent Houston attorney John O'Quinn
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Plaintiffs Attorney John M. O'Quinn Remembered as Being 'Bigger Than Life'
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Some Kaye Scholer 1st-Years to Earn $60K to Do Firm’s Pro Bono Work
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Kaye Scholer: Splits First Year Class into Two Groups
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Slaughter and May to pay 5% bonus
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Partner in email rant
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His Own Private Idaho
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Salary Cut Watch: Foley Hoag Slashes Salaries to ‘Improve Associate Development’
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Cost-Cutting Law Firms Are ‘Lean and Mean and Ready to Profit,’ Consultant Says
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Dueling Reports: More or Less Litigation?
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More BigLaw Firms Mull Expanded Use of Contract Attorneys
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Cut Hours,Cut Salaries and Increase Profits?
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Buyers' Market
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Simmons blames global crisis as firm pulls plug on Moscow arm
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How the world's largest company cut its 270-firm European line-up down to just 80
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Management Recommends Merger of Lovells and Hogan & Hartson
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On Gmail and the Constitution
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Task-Code Billing: How to Drive Big Law Counsel Insane
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Lawyer markets herself as "a rottweiler with a handbag"
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Pls Hndle Thx: The Haunting of Facebook
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Uh, Trick or Treat?: Lawyer Caught in Cemetery With Teen Stripper
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Legal Site's Buzz-Building Ploy Backfires Badly
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Survey: 'Find a Lawyer' Sites Not Rating Well
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Apple ups the ante in its battle against the BlackBerry
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Wilmer Wins Release of Client Wrongfully Imprisoned for 26 Years
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Lawyer Faces Discipline for Marrying Her Client
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Say What?!
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Judges:

Top Pa. Court Vacates 1000s of Juvenile Rulings By Former Luzerne County Judge
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Judges In Pa. Corruption Case Likely to Evade Civil Charges
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Man Who Gave Judge Video to Chevron in $27B Ecuador Case a Convicted Felon
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Judge Convicted in Prostitution Case May Not Lose His Job
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Judge of the Day: Jerk Chicken Judge
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Retired Couple’s Hobby Is Court Watching
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Wall Street:

US Stock-Index Futures Drop Before Consumer Spending Report
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Investors rush back into stocks as economy grows
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What's Still Wrong with Wall Street
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Layoffs:

National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Shell Fires 5,000, Sees No Quick Recovery
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Sacramento Has Lost 40,500 Jobs in Last Year
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Corporate Reform:

Financial overhaul bill gets wary reception
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Revolutionary Financial Regulation
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F.D.I.C. Chief Criticizes Reform Plan
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U.S. bank regulators: Key firms can't be a secret
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Obama 'too big to fail' plan blasted in Congress
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US Seeks Power to Force Even Strong Banks to Shrink
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Chamber Chief Battles Obama Agenda
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Gambling:

Sands loss widens on higher taxes
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Centaur Subsidiaries File For Bankruptcy
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Detroit Casinos Fare Well in Slump
(WSJ: separate paid subscription required)

Developer trying to buy Greektown Casino Hotel, investor says
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PR:

Resources Connection is buying Sitrick, Brincko
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Horse Racing:

New Twist In Magna Bankruptcy Case
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Racetrack bidders jockey for position
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Lawrence County Race Track Developer Files Chapter 11
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Newspapers:

Graphic History of the Decline of Newspapers
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Economy:

Consumers, Government Propel Growth
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Stimulus Fueled Much of Expansion
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Obama Says US Has 'Long Way to Go' to Full Recovery
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Obama has mixed message on recovery
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Why Didn't Inventories Go Up?
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The GDP Mirage
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The recession may be over at last _ so what now?
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Ding, Dong, The Recession Is Dead
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GDP up 3.5 percent; jobless claims fall
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Don't expect a Great Recovery
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Here's Why the Economy's Growing
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Fed's AIG decision in context
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America's bittersweet recovery
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False Reading: Brisk GDP Growth Can't Last
(WSJ: separate paid subscription required)

Mixed Reactions From Washington On GDP Growth
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Cash-For-Clunkers MASSIVELY Distorted GDP
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Taxpayers paid $24,000 per clunker
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White House fights back on Cash for Clunkers
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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:

Geithner Says Commercial Real Estate Woes Won't Spark Crisis
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US lawmakers close in on extending housing support
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Homebuyer Credit to Continue Helping People Get into Crazy Debt?
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Q&A: The Home Buyer Tax Credit Extension
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California AG Wants Pay Option ARM Answers
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U.S. Home Vacancies Rise to 18.8 Million on Defaults
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Experts say economy crushing Las Vegas real estate market
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Autos:

GM to Tap Government Loan
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Politicians Butt In at Bailed-Out GM
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Senate committee calls Delphi's salaried pensions 'devastating'
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Delphi retirees seek restitution over steep pension cuts
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Delphi reaches settlement with Appaloosa
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Telecoms:

Fairpoint Plan Spells Fear For Workers' Benefits
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Fraud:

Picower's Death Adds to Mystery: Who Else Knew Of Madoff Fraud?
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Court Denies Madoff Aide’s Request for Bail
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Galleon Founder Asks Court to Reduce Bail
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Defense Blasts Insider Trading Witness in Call for Altered Bond
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Bail Set At $750,000 For Intel's Goel In Insider-Trading Case
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JP Morgan raised concerns about Galleon in 2001: report
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Goldman Sachs denies any Galleon insider trading wrongdoing
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Galleon Proves the Case for More Oversight
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Raj Rajaratnam Would Never Abandon All That Sweet Real Estate Just to Avoid Prison
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Hints of Missed Chance to Pursue Galleon Case
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Galleon 'paid banks for market color'
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That’s Entertainment! The Petters Case Kicks Off in a Big Way
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Big banks ensnared in alleged K1 scandal
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'Unable to meet expectations' at Stanford
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Receiver sues Stanford employees for $11 million
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Banking:

The tide is turning in the Glass-Steagall debate
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FDIC's Blair: There Will be Losses
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Do banks have something to hide?
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FDIC Report: Failed NC Bank Needed Stronger Regulation
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Renewed Dismissal Motion in WaMu Subprime Suit Substantially Denied
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Aviation:

Japan Says JAL Can Be Saved, With State Bailout
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JAL's rehabilitation depends on clearing huge negative financial situation
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Oil/Gas:

Rancher Energy files for Chapter 11
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Exxon, Oil Majors Battle to Restore Earnings as Demand Plunges
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Alternative Fuels:

U.S. advanced biofuel sector finds lenders wary
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Pensions:

PBGC takes over Pueblo plan
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Bill Would Extend Time to Fund Pension Plans
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Agriculture:

Farmers Fight To Survive Worst Downturn In Decades
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Credit Cards:

Portfolio Recovery Q3 Net Income Drops 12%
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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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Bankruptcy Reform:

House Committee Passes CFPA Measure with Bankruptcy Amendment
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Compensation:

To Rein In Pay, Rein In Wall St.
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Celebs:

GQ Ranks Elizabeth Warren Among D.C.’s Most Powerful
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The GQ link
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Richest dead celebrity? It's not Michael Jackson
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Insurance:

MetLife Posts Third Straight Loss as Derivatives Slip
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AIG finally making money on CDSs
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Finance:

CIT Bondholders May Have To Wait To Learn Lender's Fate
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CIT seen filing for bankruptcy in coming days
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Silver Point ponies up even more for CIT?
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The New Rules of Angel Investing
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Hotels:

Ty Warner Hits Trouble With Hotels
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Municipalities:

Springfield: Bankruptcy a Possibility if Sales Tax Doesn't Pass
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New Federal Power Urged Over Municipal Bond Sales
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Mayor's conviction only one problem in Birmingham
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Religion:

Abuse victims protest Fairbanks diocese bankruptcy plan
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Art:

Wall Street's Orphaned Art
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Owning a Piece of Lehman Brothers
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Retailing:

Conn's: Retailer with Bank-Type Risk
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Jewelry:

Zale Posts Massive $189.5 Million Loss
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Chemicals:

Chemtura expects to emerge from bankruptcy within year of filing
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Lehman:

Did the UK government pull the plug on Lehman Bros?
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Private Equity:

Comvest Completes Cynergy Data Purchase
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Hockey:

Bettman updates Coyotes situation on NHL Hour
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Report: Canadians have interest in Coyotes
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Accounting:

BDO's UK Managing Partner Has a Strange Definition of 'Solid'
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Do Recessions Cause Accounting Irregularities?
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Lawsuit Against Deloitte Gets New Life
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Health Care:

CCS Medical Creditors Eye Talks, After Plan Rejected
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Sovereigns:

World's Top 20 Debtor Nations
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UK:

First Quench Retailing files for bankruptcy
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Immediate Clampdown on Debt Buy-Backs
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Customers' fury as bank reveals £1-a-day charge on overdrafts
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Canada:

Canwest says National Post might fold
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The great BC real estate bust
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Negotiations with AbitibiBowater suspended over pensions
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China:

China creates 7.57 mln new jobs in first eight months
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