Law:
Tribune Creditors Seek to Recover Bankruptcy Fees Paid Lawyers, Advisers - The Motion
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The early word on law-firm bonuses? Meh
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Associate Bonus Watch: Skadden Matches Cravath
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Deferral Stipend Judgment Is a Moral Victory for Two Former Heller Ehrman Associates
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Recovery Just Creeping Along in Keystone State
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Akin Gump Partner Pens Email Fantasy About Firing Delinquent Time Keepers
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Does the Defense of Foreclosures by Lawyers Border on the Unethical?
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Thompson Hine Adds Bankruptcy Lawyer
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White & Case's Lauria to Rangers Bankruptcy Judge: "Why Don't You Call Me Blutarsky?"
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BigLaw Firm, Wall Street Client Suddenly Playing Defense in Land Deal Gone Wrong
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Ethics 20/20 Commission Releases Draft Report on Outsourcing, Seeks Feedback
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Is Document Review a ‘Scarlet Letter’ on Lawyer Resumés?
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Top 20 UK Law Firm to Outsource All Support Staff Work & Bring Local Integreon Office In-House
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Write-downs, Write-offs and LPM
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The King Is Retiring, Long Live . . . Uh
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Growing ‘Budget-Friendly’ Law Firm Cites Rates, Service & Roadside Location as Secret to Success
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Ex-Attorney Gets 21 Months for Stealing $343K from Law Firm
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Ex-BigLaw Associate Who Faked $500,000 in Billables Loses Law License
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Oracle awarded $1.3 billion in copyright infringement suit
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Prominent Lawyer Will Be Retried on Fraud Charges Over $34 Million in Settlements
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Ex-NY Partner, Firm Air Kiss and Make Up
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Long Line Forms at Law Firm Giving Out 1,000 Free Thanksgiving Turkeys
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Partnership Prospects Survey Results
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Citigroup Seeks Lawyer to Oversee Social Media
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Use the iPad to Create PDFs
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Duke Undergrads Expelled From Duke Law Library in Preparation for Finals
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Police Haven’t Ruled Out Homicide in Lawyer’s Golf Cart Death
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The Cleverest Departure Email of All Time Comes From the Finance Industry
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Judges:
The judge in the Rangers' bankruptcy case was hilarious
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Judge Sounds Off on Rangers Owner, Sports Reporters, DH
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Jogging With Judge Unethical
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Former Justice Pulls Back Curtain on Michigan Supreme Court
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Wall Street:
US Stock Futures Edge Up As Investors Await Economic Data
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Wall Street Playing 'Chicken' With US Government
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Wallets Out, Wall Street Dares to Indulge
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Layoffs:
Unemployment Rates Improving in Most States
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Unemployment in States Remains High
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Gloomy Fed employment forecast overshadows upbeat GDP data
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Nevada Retains Highest Unemployment Rate
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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AIG:
AIG, Treasury Prepare For Life After Bailout
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Avoidance Actions:
Early Payments to Trade Creditors May Fall Outside the “Ordinary Course of Business” Defense to a Preference Action
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Hotels:
Ex-Hilton to officially become Wyndham Grand, judge rules
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PB Capital appointed receiver at $84 million Midtown hotel and condo foreclosure
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Video Rentals:
Blockbuster Creditors Seek Icahn Investment Documents in Bankruptcy Probe
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Baseball:
Scott Boras Surrounded by Controversy for Allegedly Supplying Loans and Payments to Poor Dominican Prospects
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Greenberg's role in Rangers bankruptcy case irked federal judge
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Pensions:
Pensions case could shift creditor rankings
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Debt Collection:
Bill Bartmann optimistic about new CFS II
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Lehman:
Barclays Transfers From Lehman May Break Law, SEC Says
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Sporting Goods:
Schutt Sports Seeks Auction With $25 Million Lead Bid
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Municipalities:
Hamtramck bankruptcy would cost entire state
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Health Care:
Laser Eye Center of Hawaii Files for Bankruptcy , Announces Closure
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'Half of Americans' Facing Diabetes by 2020
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Bankruptcy judge orders auction of Kentwood Pharmacy property
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Moody's predicts uncertain future for New Jersey hospitals
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Skilled Healthcare's $677 million verdict to be officially dropped to $50 million with settlement
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Distressed Investing:
Investors look beyond GM for post- bankruptcy buys
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Economy:
GDP report: Economic growth picks up steam
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Divided Fed Lowered Growth Forecasts
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Bernanke Reviews Fed Communications Amid Backlash on Purchases
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Fed Weighing Major Shift in Its Approach to Inflation
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Central Atlantic Manufacturing Activity Increases
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Corporate Profits Were the Highest on Record Last Quarter
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Treasury's Massad Says 'Successful' GM IPO Lowered TARP Costs
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Treasury gets $11.7 billion from GM stock sale
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Treasury: TARP Money Returned to Taxpayers Exceeds $250 Billion
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Why the federal deficit reminds me of Enron
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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:
Sales of Existing Houses Fell More Than Forecast in October
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Michigan existing home sales fall 23.3% in October from 2009
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Foreclosure Hearings Show Homeowners Who in Washington Cares
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Homeowners Get Out of Paying Mortgage
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Free Mortgage? Not So Fast
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Morgan Stanley view political will to fix housing as scarce
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Regulators Taking Ostrich Approach to Foreclosure Mess
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Despite Promises, Banks Still Leave Homeowners Facing Foreclosure Out in the Cold
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Review of foreclosure paperwork process finds 'widespread' and 'inexcusable' breakdowns, Treasury official says
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Foreclosure Detectives Hunt for Lies
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Robosigning and Evidence
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The Story of Countrywide's Mortgage Practices Keeps Getting Uglier
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Home price declines becoming more likely
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Home sales in central Ohio, state down more than 30 percent in October
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FTC Passes New Foreclosure Rules for Struggling Home Owners
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Mediation urged to limit foreclosures
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Who owns your mortgage?
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Eviction turns into deadly shooting in South Beach
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Legal challenges to foreclosure middleman are mounting
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Class Challenges Foreclosures in Chicago
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Residents Call on Wells Fargo to Freeze Foreclosures
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Bank of America Fined for Harassing Ex-Homeowners
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Freddie Mac says to hike fees on some US mortgages
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The Ultimate Mortgage Fraud Anecdote
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Hidden Victims of Mortgage Meltdown
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Why MERS Needs to Be Taken Out and Shot
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Moody's downgrades 272 tranches of RMBS issued by Countrywide
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Miami's 'Condo King' Perez Perseveres After Losses
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What if we turned Vegas' empty homes into works of art?
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Paterson backs Statler effort
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Understanding the Housing 'Walk Away' Threat and Measuring Its Risk
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C-Bass Tells Top Executives to Cut Bait
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Intracoastal Realty president files for bankruptcy protection
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Foreclosed 1000-acre property sold in Austin
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Creditors start foreclosure on Greenwood Village's troubled Landmark
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Real Estate Investors Look to the Future, and See Signs to Buy Apartment Towers
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Aviation:
Poll: Most fliers bothered or angered by TSA pat-downs
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For Air Travelers, Small Affronts Start to Add Up
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Poll: Americans Support Airport Body Scanners
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Banking:
Banks Post $14.5 Billion Profit, Smallest Since 2009
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FDIC adds banks to its 'problem list'
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FDIC Sees Further Progress by Banks
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Number of Problem Banks Still Growing
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Small banks, big problems
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Large Banks Still Have Financing Advantage
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Basel 3 pushes cost of securitization, as banks face capital shortfall
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Why Do Bank Results Slump in the Fourth Quarter?
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Fraud:
Wellington Said to Get Document Request From US in Insider-Trading Probe
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More Firms Pulled Into Insider Probe
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Former Prosecutors Talk Wiretaps, Martha, Galleon, More
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Janus Capital: We've Been Roped into the Insider Trading Probe
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Analyst Tells Why He Rebuffed the F.B.I.
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The Insider Trading Probe’s Link to ‘The Producers’?
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Meet the New Hedge Fund in the Insider-Trading Probe: Balyasny
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Is Insider Trading Everywhere?
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Feds turn up heat on Wall St., raid 3 hedge funds
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Feds Raid Hedge Funds – Business As Usual
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An Old Debate Reprised: Should Insider Trading Be a Federal Crime?
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FBI takes a stab at soft hedge fund tissue
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Hedge Funds Lawyering Up
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Refco Can't Sue Insiders for Assisting in Fraud
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Fugitive CEO to Pay $53 Million
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Hecker attorney says he didn't know anything about possible wedding
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UBS Sued for $2 Billion in Lawsuit by Madoff Trustee Picard Claiming Fraud - The Complaint
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Utilities:
Boston Generating Seeks Exclusivity Extension
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Boston Generating, Creditors Spar Over Company Valuation
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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
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)
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Miscellaneous:
Texas Rangers, Abitibi, WaMu, Lehman: Bankruptcy
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BankUnited, Schutt, Orleans, Banning Lewis, Abitibi: Bankruptcy
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Bankruptcy Reform:
Bankruptcy Bills Update
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Lehman:
Lehman, Barclays Send Billion-Dollar Battle to Bankruptcy Judge
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Lehman Brokerage Trustee Claims $7 Billion From Barclays in Asset Dispute
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Newspapers:
Tribune Judge OKs More Disclosure in Creditor Suit
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Celebs:
So now the Kardashians Are Financial Role Models?
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Bankruptcy Crimes:
FBI informant Solomon Dwek's partner admits concealing $82K from bankruptcy trustee
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Autos:
Obama's GM 'success story' still a losing deal
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Obama, Geithner praise GM IPO
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Obama Includes Toyota, Hyundai and Kia in 75000 Jobs “Created” by GM Bailout
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Saudi prince snaps up 1% stake in GM
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S&P Advises Hold on GM Stock
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Will GM connection hurt Altman?
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Doctors top Realtors looking to get out of auto leases
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Fed Trims Outlook on Growth, Jobs
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Cerberus Capital Looks to Sell Chrysler Financial
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Corporate Reform:
GOP Wants 'Rigorous' Oversight Of Consumer Agency
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GOP Lawmakers: Elizabeth Warren's
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Bank On It: Republicans are Gunning for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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A tale of two Oklahomans: Frank Keating and Elizabeth Warren
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Republican Strategy to Reform the Consumer Finance Watchdog
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Environmental:
Tronox to pay $270M for contaminated site cleanup
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UK:
Why we have to help the Irish
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The financial truth hurts Ireland
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Fergie set to clear £5m debts
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EU:
European markets sink as Germany warns of 'serious situation' for euro
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European stress tests weren't worth the paper they were written on
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Fears of Domino Effect Pervade Europe
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PIGS:
Irish Rescue Accord Turns Investors' Focus to Spain, Portugal: Euro Credit
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Cowen Resists Resignation Calls
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Irish Leader Beats Back Early Move To Oust Him
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Solving the Irish Crisis
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Political chaos engulfs Ireland, threatens bailout
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Irish banks’ rescue presages radical surgery
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The Irish crisis: More socialism for the rich, more capitalism for the rest of us
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Wanna buy an Irish bank?
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Bank of Ireland Falls on Concern State May Take Majority Stake in Bailout
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Belfast 'banker's union' to meet
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Irish banks are 'up for sale'
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A bit of bankruptcy could aid Ireland
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Spain’s deficit gain fails to ease bail-out fears
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Spain's Borrowing Costs Soaring on Debt Issues
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IMF's Lipsky Says Facilities Exist to Help Portugal
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Spain is Europe's Lehman-in-waiting
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Germany:
Kirch Told to Prove Ex-Deutsche Bank Chief Sparked Bankruptcy
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German business confidence rises in November
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Middle East:
Emirates builder files for bankruptcy
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UAE White Bay Developer Seeks Bankruptcy After Half Its Buyers Default
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After crisis, Dubai refocuses while tackling debts
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TIBC’s Bahrain Lawyers Can’t Void U.S. Rulings
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Mexico:
Vitro Extends Pre- Bankruptcy Debt Exchange to Dec. 7
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Australia:
The bankrupt CEO and one 'hell of a secret'
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Canada:
Former partners Nortel, BreconRidge in court fight
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