Law:
Growing Discontent at Kaye Scholer
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Dead Firm Billing: Howrey Going to Keep Doing Business?
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Howrey asks judge to throw out California bankruptcy proceedings
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Former European Howrey Partners Find New Homes
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King & Spalding's Reversal of Fortune
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US law leaders shrug off tough market to hike profits by 8%
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Allen & Overy launches redundancy talks ahead of offshoring
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Links and Simmons lead on HMV but restructuring remains subdued
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Grant & Eisenhofer Adds Former Hogan Lovells Partner Matthew Morris to Head Bankruptcy Litigation Practice
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Three Firms Handling $1.1 Billion Innkeepers USA Bankruptcy Sale
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The Why Law Firms? AmLaw 100 Analysis
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Deutsche Bank, MetLife, HSBC, Rajaratnam, K1 in Court News
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Recent Rulings Focus on Spoliation of ESI
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Relief From Onerous Steps to Protect Expert Work Product
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Using an iPad to recreate a scene in a deposition
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Classic dress is popping up at law firms all over the city
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Lost Decade - Over, now it's what lawyers make it
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Lawyers as Whistleblowers
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Funeral for a Partner
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Lawyer of the Day: Sucker-Punched D.A. Puts Criminal In The Hospital
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Law Revue Video Contest: Dishonorable Mentions
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A Step-by-Step Interview Guide for Law Students
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Student goes insane during Con Law Final, Dies from “Overstudy”
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When Should You Start Your Own Firm?
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Teacher Mocks Muslim Student After Osama Bin Laden's Death, Says 'I Bet You're Grieving'
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Judges:
Justice Stevens Hits Immunity Ruling, Calls on Congress to Change the Result
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Dissenting in Water Rights Case, Justice Scalia Renames the People of Wyoming
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Wall Street:
US stock index futures inch higher
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Weaker banks push European shares to 2-week lows
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SEC Requests Comment on Increased Disclosure for Short Sellers
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Layoffs:
States to Tax Businesses to Shore Up Unemployment Insurance
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ADP: Private firms add 179,000 jobs
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Corporate Reform:
The Anti-Consumer Agenda
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Proposed bills aim to weaken agency, consumer advocates say
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Rep. Spencer Bachus: CFPB repeal effort is about stopping Elizabeth Warren
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GOP House Blocks Bid To Name Elizabeth Warren Head of Agency
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Dodd-Frank Rulemaking Delays: Bad, and Likely to Get Worse
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House GOP advances bills curbing Consumer Bureau
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Elizabeth Warren Remains On Short List To Head Consumer Protection Bureau
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Nominate Elizabeth Warren
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If Liz Warren Gets the Nod, She'll Have Osama bin Laden to Thank
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When will the Fed start caring about bank regulation?
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Municipalities:
California's Nightmare Budget
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UBS to Pay $160 Million to Settle Bid-Rigging Claims
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Providence Budget Crisis
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Municipal Bankruptcy Bill Draws Ire of Local Government Organizations
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Still lousy, bankruptcy bill back
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Meredith Whitney Doubles Down On Her Call For An Epic Muni Catastrophe
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47% of Detroiters can't read
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Tiny Towns Spend Big Bucks on Lobbyists to Reap Federal Government Riches
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Directories:
Caribe Accused by Noteholders of Wrongly Moving $44 Million to Affiliate
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Caribe Lenders Seek Return of $44.2 Million in Bankruptcy
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Baseball:
Dodgers Insolvency May Be The Yankees Gain
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Banking:
FDIC report clears small banks of faux pas in foreclosures
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LA lawsuit claims Deutsche Bank is 'slumlord'
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Charges, rising costs hit Societe Generale results
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Video Games:
The Fight For Mortal Kombat Exits Bankruptcy As Part of Midway Games Sale
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Retailing:
Metropark Files Bankruptcy
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Borders CEO Mike Edwards: 'We are here fighting to the end'
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Economy:
Job numbers disappoint
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About 1 in 7 in U.S. Receive Food Stamps
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Fed’s Rosengren Says U.S. Job Growth Too Slow to Remove Stimulus Program
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Moment of Falsehood
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St. Louis Fed Blames Gasoline for Inflation Swings
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Barney Frank Tries to Restructure the Fed
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Debt Ceiling Has Some Give, Until Roof Falls In
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The coming millionaire boom
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Economic Struggles Are Prolonged With Central Banks In a Box
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Goldman Is Quietly Freaking Out About The Volcker Rule
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Osama bin Laden and National Bankruptcy
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More Americans raiding their nest eggs
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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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Bailout Recipients
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Real Estate:
The Loving and Merciful Act of Foreclosure
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Jamie Dimon Says Banks Are Being Nice to You When They Take Your House
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Fla. Judge Changes Mind, Won't Hold Ben-Ezra Firm in Contempt, But Imposes $13K in Sanctions
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LPS rolls out consent-order solution for mortgage servicers
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Here's What A World Without Subprime Loans Looks Like
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Clear Capital: Home prices double-dip into 'uncharted territory'
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BofA, Wells Fargo Lenders Challenged on Mortgage Papers in North Carolina
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Realty Executives will emerge stronger, its owner says
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Foreclosure Crisis Pushing Bank Limits: FDIC
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Deutsche Bank Sued by Los Angeles Over Foreclosed Properties, Evictions
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FDIC study blames mortgage servicing mess on big banks
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Freddie Mac turns a profit in 1Q
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CMBS delinquencies experience historic jump
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Pummeled Phoenix housing market may be flattening
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Las Vegas distressed home sales hit another five year high
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SF protesters slam foreclosure
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Mastro bankruptcy : dinners and diamonds
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Martin Marietta Materials: Residential end-use market volume grew 15% YoY
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Newspapers:
Circulation data a mixed bag for US newspapers
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Bankruptcy Crimes:
ND cattle buyer sentenced to 11 years in prison for bank, bankruptcy fraud
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Consumer Finance:
It Is All Clear Now
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Telecoms:
Terrestar Networks Can Sell Assets at Auction, Bankruptcy
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Celebs:
Braxton Talks Bankruptcy
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Tech:
Spansion Agrees To Buy Silver Lake Bankruptcy Claims For $29 Million
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Hotels:
Ritz-Carlton Hotel at Colorado's Beaver Creek Ski Resort In Foreclosure
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Cerberus, Chatham Team Up on Winning Bids for Innkeepers USA
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Crime:
The Economics Of Illegal Drugs
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Gambling:
Indicted poker websites bound for bankruptcy
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Hockey:
NHL covers its bottom line with cash from Coyotes' home town
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The end of Coyotes saga could be near
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Recording Industry:
Freddie Records, top Tejano music label, files bankruptcy
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Orchestras:
Orchestra unlikely to save by returning to Academy
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Symphonies going silent
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Golf:
Dominion Club case heads to mediation
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Distressed Investing:
Cantor Fitzgerald Expands High-Yield, Distressed Practices
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Accounting:
PricewaterhouseCoopers Reaches $25.5 Million Settlement With Satyam Securities
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Radio:
Atlantic Broadcasting Sells 5 Stations for $4 Million
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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 Code - Prior BK Codes - Bankruptcy Rules
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UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database
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Bankruptcy Jobs:
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)
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Miscellaneous:
Madoff, Vitro, Viceroy, Clean Burn, Forum Health: Bankruptcy
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Innkeepers, Caribe, Inverness, Cordia, Vitro, WaMu, Berkline: Bankruptcy
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K1's Kiener, Lloyds Sales, Focus DIY, Keydata Probe: European Bankruptcy
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Trustees:
Former bankruptcy receiver Marika Tolz to plead guilty
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Bankruptcy Poetry:
Sbarro
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Bankruptcy filings drop in Minnesota, US
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Fraud:
Trustee for Liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities Files Motion to Allocate Recovered Monies to the BLMIS Customer Fund and Return Stolen Funds to Customers
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Madoff Trustee Picard Allots $2.6 Billion to Fund for Ponzi Scheme Payouts
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Madoff's family knew nothing of ponzi
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HSBC Seeks Dismissal of Madoff Trustee Lawsuit, Cites $1 Billion in Losses
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Madoff Trustee to Start Paying Out Funds
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How Madoff cast his spell
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At Galleon, Calm in the Face of Market Turmoil
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Already The New Raj Juror Is Giving A Hint About Which Way The Jury Is Leaning
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Will Raj Get Convicted On Crutches?
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Meet The New Juror Deciding Raj's Fate: A Leather-Wearing Minister In Training
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Who Did Raj Call "A Really Trashy Little Girl"
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Back to Square One for the Raj Rajaratnam Jury
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Have lying mortgage bankers met their match?
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Five former Brooke execs settle SEC fraud charges
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Fraud charges settled in Brooke Corp. case, "Enron of Insurance"
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9 Charged in Stock Manipulation Scheme
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Waxenberg receivership winding down
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Accountant pleads guilty in Madoff-style Stamford ponzi
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Lawyer accused in $52 million Ponzi scheme
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Pollution credit swaps contested in swindler's bankruptcy
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Pigeons:
Pigeon King case postponed again
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Autos:
GM's Q1 profit to more than double
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GM’s First Quarter May Be Most Profitable in 11 Years
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Insurance:
Appellate judge orders NY Insurance Dept. to turn over MBIA-related emails
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Health Care:
County commission advances hospital funding plan
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UK:
BOE Holds Interest Rate at 0.5% on Signs Recovery Is Fading
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Credit card interest rates hit 13-year high, analysis shows
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Have we seen the worst for individual insolvencies?
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E&Y administrators called to Focus DIY
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Bank and finance debt top business distress index
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Appointment of Administrators - 4 May 2011
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Winding Up Petitions - 4 May 2011
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EU:
Euribor rates hit fresh 2-yr highs ahead of ECB meeting
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Economist: EU Should Accept the Possibility of Default
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Italy:
Parmalat founder's jail sentence reduced to eight years
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PIIGS:
Bundesbank Head Wants Investors To Cover Crisis Costs
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Why politics could speed up Greece's debt restructuring
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Greece Should Shun Government Debt Restructuring, Premier’s Adviser Says
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IE: Personal bankruptcy reform planned
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Portugal bailout terms severe, EU says
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Portugal warned about ‘deep recession’
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MENA:
Dubai World 'can't afford to default', says Sheikh Ahmed
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Australia:
Australia’s Retail Sales Unexpectedly Drop
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