July 28, 2010

The Daily Bankruptcy News

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Law:

Akin Gump Summers Ice Some Bros
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Cozen O’Connor to Acquire 15-Person Sher & Blackwell Team Led by Managing Partner
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‘Mad Rush’ of August Interviews May Contribute to Associate Attrition, Law Dean Says
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Recruiter Offers ‘Prayers & Condolences’ to New Law Grads, Laid-Off Attorneys
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A Website That Laid-Off Associates Might Like To Know About
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Linklaters mourns death of London associate
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As the End Nears, Blago Case Gets a Little Nutty
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Blagojevich Judge Unmoved by Presidential-Looking Dismissal Order
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BigLaw Cash Pours into NY AG Race
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Mississippi Justice on Email
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Censure Proposed For Gifts From Client
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After Failed Witchcraft, Client in Love With Attorney Sought Hit Man to Murder His Wife
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Lawyer Says He Helped Client Show That $45 Garage-Sale Buy is Worth Some $200M
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Savvy Shopper-At-Law: Sophisticated Casual Friday Ensembles on a Budget
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Stanford: A Great Law School, But Can It Dethrone Yale?
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Is Eye-Rolling Disorderly Conduct? City Attorney Ordered to Investigate
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Disconnect Between Legal and IT Getting Worse
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ABA Group: US News Law School Rankings ‘Not Entirely Benign,’ But We’re Stuck with Them
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Yet Another BigLaw Drama in the Works
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Judges:

Do Not Vote For My Dad
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As Stevens retires from court, one final duel with Scalia
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Wall Street:

 

Stocks fall slightly on consumer confidence report
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Obama Makes Fund-Raising Trip to New York
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Layoffs:

Job worries darken July consumer confidence
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US Jobless Claims Up, but Hope on Horizon
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NDakota, Alaska lead job creation
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The great decoupling of profits from jobs
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San Antonio To Lose 700+ Transcom Jobs
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1,000 Get Layoff Notices At Kennedy Space Center
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500,000 Public Workers Could Be Out of Work
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Kids Can’t Find a Job? Buy Them a Business
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Examiners:

Examiner sees signs of dishonesty in Tribune sale
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Tribune Examiner Finds for Law Firm in Lender Lawsuit Fight
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Insurance:

Hartford Asked By SEC Why Worst-Performing Investments Aren't Marked Down
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Personal Finance:

Deaths family 'in bankruptcy link'
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Aviation:

Executives named for combined United, Continental
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'Few consider' airline insolvency
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31 banks asked to waive 383 bil. yen in loans to JAL
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Food/Drink:

Winn-Dixie plans layoffs, store closures
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Interested buyers get a second chance for Caprock Winery
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Newspapers:

Tribune confident it will leave Ch. 11 in 2010
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No Easy End in Sight for Tribune Co. Bankruptcy
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Zell's Not The Bad Guy In Tribune Co.'s Collapse
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Tribune Findings Mixed in Examiner Report on Buyout
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Trib management hit
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Finance:

CIT Seeks $3 Billion Loan to Reduce Cost of Bank Debt
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Book Reviews:

Broke USA Tells Payday Loan Stories from the Ground Up
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Hockey:

Ice Edge making progress, spokesman insists
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Student Debt:

Sallie sale days
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Derivatives:

FCIC heat's rising on Goldman
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Economy:

US consumer confidence dims, home prices climb
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Crude Oil Declines on Signs Slowing US Recovery Will Curtail Fuel Demand
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Why Congress should let the Bush tax cuts expire
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Economic Statistics to Keep You Up at Night
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CBO Bomb: 'Deficits will cause debt to rise to unsupportable levels'
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Cost of debt skyrocketing
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Here's The Latest On The Second Half Slowdown
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Putting Billion-Dollar Bailouts in Perspective
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In Study, 2 Economists Say Intervention Helped Avert a 2nd Depression
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Jim Rogers: New Recession in 2012
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Disconnect Between Wall St. - Main St. Widens
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Economic Stress Map
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Economy Tracker Map
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US Debt Clock
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Recovery Index
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Bailout Tracker
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Real Estate:

Home Prices Improve, But May Soon Begin Sliding
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Story Behind Record Low June Home Sales
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Artecity project seeks bankruptcy protection
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Housing Recovery Is About Timing and Location
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Moves Because of Evictions Increase
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GSE Foreclosure Starts Start Coming Faster in 2010
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Banks in legal tussle over $95M loan to Lauth
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Friar Tuck Resort bankruptcy leaves timeshare owners worried
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Bankruptcy case and helicopters
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Let’s Stop Praying to the Credit Score
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Northern California auction gets average of $94,000 per foreclosed home
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The Threat of ‘Sidelined’ Home Sellers
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Rise of the renting class
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Supply of Homes Set to Grow
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Hundreds of lenders face action from FHA Mortgage Review Board
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Driven By Foreclosures, Home Ownership Falls to Lowest Rate in Decade
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Settlements Reached With Several Mortgage Modification Firms
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Meridian Mortgage founder seeks personal Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
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City of Cleveland Loses Appeal Against Wall Street in Subprime Mortgage Case
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Big 4 Banks Add $9.5bn in Nonperforming, Foreclosed Properties in One Year
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HUD Fines CitiMortgage $700,000 for Failure to Report Delinquencies
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Oil/Gas:

Clean-Up Crews Can't Find Oil in Gulf
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Where, Oh Where Shall They Sue?
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BP Reveals Comeback Plan
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Feinberg Expects To Accept Less Documentation For Gulf Claims
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Mental Health Claims From Oil Spill Probably Won’t Be Paid
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BP boss Hayward says he was 'demonised' over oil spill
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3 Big Reasons Why Tony Hayward Failed As CEO
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A day in the life of Tony Hayward
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Tony Hayward's exit is not enough - BP needs root-and-branch reforms
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Obama, chairman discuss Dudley
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Dudley Off to a Shaky Start at BP
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This BP CEO Swap Is Useless
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BP taking $10 billion tax credit from Gulf spill
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"We have followed the IRS regulations as they're currently written."
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100 days later, devastation and hope as oil spill efforts take hold
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100 days after the spill: Feinberg in Florida
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BP Envisions Leaner Future Under Its New Chief
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Another Oil Leak Is Spotted in the Gulf
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Corporate Governance:

The shareholder wealth maximization myth
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Autos:

Daimler Wins Dismissal of Chrysler Creditors' Lawsuit Over 2007 Buyout
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Visteon Suppliers Urged to Vote Down Bankruptcy Exit, Seek More
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Banking:

Basel Group Agrees to New Global Rules for Banks
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Moody's Cuts Outlooks on BofA, Citi, Wells Fargo
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Baseball:

Attorney: Mark Cuban hasn't set timetable on Texas Rangers' decision
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Paper:

AbitibiBowater Repays $166 Million of DIP Loan
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Cemeteries:

Families closer to Burr Oak settlement
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UST:

August B. Landis Named Acting U.S. Trustee For Region 17
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Health Care:

Sumner Co., LifePoint nearing hospital sale agreement
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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 Code - Prior BK Codes - Bankruptcy Rules
(large downloads)

Bankruptcy Jobs:

(1)- (2)- (3)- (4)- (5)- (6)- (7)- (8)- (9)- (10)
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)

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Bankruptcy Reform:

Protecting Gun Owners in Bankruptcy Act of 2010
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Financial Reform Bill Contains Bankruptcy Related Studies
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Corporate Reform:

Ex-Regulators Get Set to Lobby on New Financial Rules
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Whistle-Blowing to the SEC Is About to Become More Profitable
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Elizabeth Warren: Nightmare on Wall Street
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NOW Questions Obama’s Reluctance To Nominate Elizabeth Warren, Asks Whether Sexism At Play
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Warren is right for job
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Reading Between The Lines
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SEC Can Hike Whistleblower Awards
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Miscellaneous:

Chrysler, WaMu, Texas Rangers, Visteon, Magic Brands, Tribune: Bankruptcy
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Consultants:

Epiq Systems profits rise on electronic legal discovery work
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Cards:

Credit Card Chargeoffs Fall In June
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Aerospace:

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Approves Sea Launch Reorganization Plan
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Long Beach rocket launch company to be controlled by Russian firm
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Telecoms:

LG profits tumble as handset unit struggles
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Fraud:

Trustee could sue 1000 Madoff clients
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Untangling Madoff's 'Winners' And Losers
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Creditors push Sommet Group into bankruptcy
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Taneja Bankruptcy Trustee Initiates 45 Lawsuits in Connection with Ponzi Scheme
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Hecker trustee challenges transfer of Medina house
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Accused Ponzi schemer Kenneth Starr needs $10M bail package, $250K in cash to get out of jail
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The big omission in the Goldman Sachs-SEC settlement?
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RBS to sue Goldman Sachs?
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Celebs:

Teresa Giudice Defends Bankruptcy Filing By Comparing Herself to Walt Disney
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'Real Housewives' Bankruptcy : Auction house charging $300 admission
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A Real Housewives Bankruptcy Auction!
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Teresa Giudice Keeping Her 'Head High' over Bankruptcy
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Tax:

Ex-UBS Client Gets House Arrest for Tax Conviction
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John Kerry May Be Having Buyer’s Remorse re: $7 Million Yacht
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How KKR lives the tax dream that you can only dream of
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UK:

Role of the insolvency practitioner could be reduced
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Business insolvencies to surge from public sector cutbacks
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Premier League defends preferential insolvency rule
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Father of murdered tots faced bankruptcy
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‘Significant’ number of brokers owed commission by failed debt firm
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Cable warns banks must lend or face tax
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EU:

European Banks Gain Most Since May on Capital Rules
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ECB Says Loans to European Companies Fell in June
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ECB Says Euro-Region Banks Tightened Credit Standards in Second Quarter
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Germany:

German Consumer Confidence Up Sharply
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Latvia:

Latvia's Personal Bankruptcy Law Won't Impact Nordic Lenders, Nordea Says
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Insolvency law approval has banks seething
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China:

Why the Chinese banking system is seriously in peril
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China at risk of bad loans, warns IMF
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Iceland:

Gramercy Park key
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