September 21, 2009

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Law:

Lesson Taught By Fall of Heller & Others: Banks Rule
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Thelen Files for Bankruptcy
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Thelen Files for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy, Claims Up to $100M in Liabilities
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Judy O'Neill's bankruptcy course
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Defer Madness: BigLaw Firm Pushes Back Another Seven New Hires to 2010
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Last Week In Layoffs
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S&C Reportedly Backs Off Demand for a 2-Week Response Window to Job Offers
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Older but Wiser: Stay the Course
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Dating Rules to Land a Dream Job
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The Bankruptcy Files: Jones Day Tagged For Two More Chapter 11 Exits
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Bankruptcies aside, deep recession puts lid on lawsuits
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Bakers, Lovells and White & Case advise on GM's Opel stake sale
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Plaintiffs Groups Mount Effort to Undo Supreme Court's 'Iqbal' Ruling
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Is a Company-Provided Lawyer Really Your Own?
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Key Evidentiary Matters Hovering Over Bear Stearns Criminal Case
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Judge Refuses to Seal Record in Suit Alleging Discovery Abuses by Toyota
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Bankruptcy Week Ahead
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BofA's lawyers are very busy indeed
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Law firms under pressure from banks for "cheap resource"
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BigLaw Starts the Post-Modern Era
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Debevoise Isn't Paranoid If Someone's Really Out to Get Them
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Courtroom Battle of Wits: Psych v. The GEICO Gecko
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If You Build It, They Will Come: Is a Small Iowa Firm Showing Us How to Round Third and Head for Home?
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Pfizer Lawyers Say Plaintiffs Guilty of Witness Intimidation
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Stanford’s New Lawyers: ‘As Different as Punk and Country Music’
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Stanford Fraud and the Florida Bar
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The New Establishment Go-to Gang
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Failure to Break Bad News to Client Costs Firm $4.5 Million
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Becker & Poliakoff to Appeal $4.5M Malpractice Loss, Blames ‘Rogue Lawyer’
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Pls Hndle Thx: Party Like It’s 5770
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The Kill Step: Dole Lost Trials in Two Countries - But Its GC Smelled Fraud
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After Lawyer Curses Adversary During Deposition, Judge Orders Attorneys to Dinner Summit
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Class Questions LegalZoom's Business
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Law Student of the Day: He Says He’s Not Dating Rihanna, But Everybody Thinks He Is
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High-School Dropout Lawyer Wins $10.7 Million Verdict for Her Late Brother's Wrongful Murder Conviction
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‘Smart Socializing’ Can Help 1st-Years Get Started on Rainmaking
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Attorney Accused of Trying to Hire a Hit Man to Kill Another Lawyer
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Law firms rethink retirement rules in the recession
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Caption Contest Winner: American Pie
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Lawsuit of the Day: Getting Off on Knock-off Virtual Sex Toys
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Legal Secretary Charged in $700,000 Theft From N.Y. Law Firm
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Judges:

Washington Judge Guts Suit by Spurned Justice Department Candidates Against Bush Justice Officials
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Wall Street:

Stock futures dip along with oil
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UK Stocks Fall for First Time in Seven Days
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Is the Recent Rally Irrational Exuberance?
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The new dating landscape for bankers
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Layoffs:

National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Jobless, but Still Working
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A Layoff, and a New Direction
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Joblessness Spikes to 11.1% in DC, Eases in Va., Md.
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Protesters Demand G20 Do More For Jobs
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Lufthansa to cut central operations' staff costs
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Former Finance Professionals Stunned to Find There Are Jobs That Don't Require Them to Be Jerks
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Banking:

Number of failed US banks hits 94
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G-20 Push on Banking Capital Threatens Profits From Goldman to Barclays
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FDIC chief considers tapping Treasury for funds
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Fed eyes new bank pay rules to fight risk
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Leading Senator Pushes New Plan to Oversee Banks
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When a bank feud got physical
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Please Adopt Citigroup's Toxic Assets!
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Lewis the 'hero' gets a Lynching
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Did Ken Lewis Lie to Shareholders?
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Too Many ‘No’ Votes to Be Ignored
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Credit Suisse Thrives Despite Crisis
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Credit Suisse's Charter Should Be Revoked
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Television:

Reality Show Producer: Meet Your Bankruptcy Judge
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Economy:

Nobel Winner Krugman Says 'End of World Postponed'
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Fed not acting like there's a recovery
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The Financial Turmoil, One Year Later
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Facts and the Financial Crisis
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Dollar Falls to One-Year Low
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Dollar Strengthens as Federal Reserve May Signal Stimulus Exit
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Fed Rejects Geithner Request for Public Study of its Governance, Structure
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Bernanke Gets to Pronounce the Recession's End, Obama Says
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Crisis panel vows: We will be relevant
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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:

Housing Suffering Relapse Confronts Bernanke Credit Conundrum
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What Commercial Real-Estate Threat? The Recovery has Begun
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CMBS Spreads Hold Steady on Investor Uncertainty
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Let the Bidding Begin
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Lawler: ‘Duh!’ FHA Should've Done This Long Ago
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Fortune 500 winner: Freddie Mac
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Lawyer's Bid to Foreclose on Girlfriend's Condo Rejected
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Mortgage Modifications Messes Up Market
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Lennar loss widens, expects profit in fiscal 2010
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Want the Home Buyer Tax Credit? Don’t Shop for Furniture
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Elderly Bank Bandit: I Robbed to Pay Off my Mortgage
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Landmark developers' finances detailed in bankruptcy court filings
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Luxury real estate vultures
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Lehman:

What's In A Name?
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Lehman Diaspora: Traveling the Wall Street-to-Washington Trail
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Where Are They Now? Lehman’s Former CLO Teaches Class, Joins Patton Boggs
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Autopsies miss Lehman lesson
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Autos:

Detroit’s Mr. Fix-It Takes On Saturn
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Car showrooms quiet after clunkers clamor ends
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Visteon Cuts Bankruptcy Bonus Proposal by $69 Million
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Chrysler exec runs afoul of Uncle Sam, possibly lender
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Rubber alchemy from bankruptcy, tires
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Municipalities:

Bankrupt City to Charge $200 for Bogus 911 Calls
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Tax:

US Tax Probe ‘May Spread Like Wildfire’ After UBS Settlement
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As UBS Deadline Nears, Other Banks Come Forth
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IRS to Extend Leniency for UBS Offshore Disclosures
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Business Owners Fret Over IRS Fines
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Food/Drink:

Note greets Sacramento TGI Friday's customers: Restaurant is closed
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Aviation:

Lufthansa Seeks to Cut Administrative Costs by 15%
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Newspapers:

Obama open to newspaper bailout bill
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Cash Management Systems:

Tangled Financial Web Allows Assets to Escape Trustee's Reach
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Debt Collection:

Maryland Bans Third-Largest Debt Buyer
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Private Equity:

Buyout firms rush IPOs into upbeat market
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M&A:

M&A Boom Signaled for S&P 500 Index on Record Cash
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Advertising:

Madison Ave. execs are being squeezed by the recession - and have no answers
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Corporate Reform:

Obama Says Financial Regulations Must Be Strengthened Globally
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Dodd Plan for Single U.S. Bank Regulator May Spark Fight with Frank, Obama
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Report: Feds in criminal probe of BofA's Merrill purchase
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SEC Bid to Speed Probes, Win Esteem Stumbles on Bank of America
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Why haven't any Wall Street tycoons been sent to the slammer?
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Cramer Criticizes the SEC's Skewed Priorities
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(1 new opinion today)

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 Humor:

Bankruptcy Bill
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Labor:

Recession Drives Women Back to the Work Force
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Defaults:

A really bad (ok, the worst ever) year for defaults
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Compensation:

Fed Preparing to Step Up Regulation of Banks' Pay
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A year after Lehman, making reforms isn't as easy as it sounds
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Wall St. vs. Sports: a Look at the Top Paychecks
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Credit Cards:

New BofA Credit Card Touts Simplicity
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Health Care:

Most without insurance are not able to afford it
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Is Health-Care Reform Unconstitutional (Part II)
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The Insured, Too, Are Failed by the Health System
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Insurance:

S&P, Fitch, DBRS to Meet Insurance Regulators About Ratings
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Fraud:

Stanford Defendant Drops Request for Immediate Trial
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Stanford Gets Champagne Defense on Beer Budget as Public Pays
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Madoff Heads To Jail, And The Books Head To Stores
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Obama Backs Acorn Probe
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As Acorn Falls, Democrats Would Be Wise to Duck
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Daughter fights to bring down Ponzi scheme
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Lebanon's “Madoff” : A Divine Bankruptcy
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Has the Gulf Coast become a Ponzi haven?
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Retailing:

Boscov's out of bankruptcy , but not out of the woods yet
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Fashion:

Recession Armor
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Gambling:

Penn National in Fontainebleau Las Vegas talks-source
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Religion:

Vatican official asks judge to dismiss Davenport diocese bankruptcy trustee's claim
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Hedge Funds:

The Vanishing Hedge Fund
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Accounting:

PwC voted best place for graduates
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Grant Thornton Wins Judgment in Parmalat Case
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Grant Thornton Continues on Some Sort of John Gotti Teflon-esque Run
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E&Y Partners Need Pachyderm-like Memory for Counting Emmy Ballots
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Crowe Horwath Sticks to Their Guns and Gets Fired
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Big accounting switch vexes banks
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Going Concern Audit Opinions: Why So Few Warning Flares?
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UK:

Treasury in toxic asset talks with Lloyds
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Debt management companies to be scrutinized
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Asking Prices for U.K. Homes Rise as Confidence Improves
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EU:

Europe takes tough line on banker pay ahead of G20 summit
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Germany:

Merkel, Steinmeier Face Economic `Mess' in Germany as Stimulus Peters Out
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Turkey:

IMF chief sees no need to help Turkey
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Middle East:

Cashflow Crisis in UAE: Insolvency & Bankruptcy Insight
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Russia:

Russian Stocks Lead Worldwide Slump, Losing Most in Three Weeks
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