Law:

Global Law Firms Chart Slow But Steady Growth --- Revenue at Biggest 100 Law Firms Rose 4.3% in 2013 --- The Global 100 Rankings: Which Biglaw Firms Are The Richest In The World?
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Are key partners on board for merger of Bingham and Morgan Lewis? --- What Needs To Happen For the Bingham / Morgan Lewis Deal To Proceed
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Simpson Thacher deemed fastest growing law firm
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How Corporations Actually Choose Outside Counsel
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In-house Counsel Take Stock of Work-Life Balance
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These 5 firms argued half of all SCOTUS cases last term
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Bernstein Shur Adds New Restructuring Attorney
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I Walked Into An Apple Store And Bent An iPhone 6 Plus --- 'I've Bent 3 iPhones Now, And They All Bend In Exactly The Same Place'
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3 Lies You Tell Yourself That Kill Your Productivity
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Departure Memo Of The Day: A Beery Farewell
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Seeking forgiveness for a bad work result? State the facts, and don’t offer a vague excuse
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And The Award For Worst Board Of Law Examiners Goes To…
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18 Body-Language Tricks To Make A Great First Impression
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Mistrust of police is highest where law enforcement is most needed
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Bankruptcy Issues For Healthy Companies: What Creditors Face
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Best Lawyer Ad Of All Time? --- Need A Lawyer? Call The Law Hawk!
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Instagram Gets Trolled After Sending Cease And Desist Letter To ‘S---s of Instagram’
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Donald Trump Threatens To Sue After Accidentally Tweeting A Picture Of Serial Killers
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Louisiana Restaurant Offers 10 Percent Discount for Gun-Toting Customers
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Judge Writes Stinging Ruling Against 6 Jail Guards Who Hog-Tied A Mentally Ill Man
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Police Bust College Student On Jogging While Intoxicated Charge
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Mom pulled over has baby in trunk
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WalMart Blames Tracy Jordan for Injuries
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Mug Shots
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Judges:

Judge Brian Lynch Now the Chief Bankruptcy Judge for Western District of Washington
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The remarkable Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Justice Ginsburg's Twisted Logic
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What is Justice Ginsburg’s message to young feminists?
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Thinks This Is The Worst Supreme Court Ruling
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Should the Private Sector Drive PACER?
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Should Federal Judges Have to Turn over Their Medical Records?
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Special committee is appointed to investigate federal judge accused of domestic violence
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Did any Pennsylvania judges receive ‘p---gate’ emails? Chief justice wants to know
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Judge says lawyer appeared unsteady and disheveled in court, orders drug test and jailing
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Judges on the Campaign Trail
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Former Texas judge admits stealing dead man’s Social Security benefits
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Wall Street:

U.S. Stock -Index Futures Climb Before Sentiment Report
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Global stocks mostly higher after after Wall Street declines, Hong Kong protests
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Stocks close lower, following drops overseas
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Layoffs:

1 in 5 of U.S. workers were laid off in past five years, study says
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Education:

The College Majors With The Biggest Lifetime Earnings
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Healthcare:

Rauner hit on HomeBanc failure
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Rauner questioned about Trans Health Care connections
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Miller: Rauner needs to get facts straight
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Not all the dots connect on new Quinn attack ad against Rauner business deal
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Source: Hampden County Physician Associates to file for bankruptcy; many doctors joining Mercy Medical Center
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NRMC employees question PERS payments at bankruptcy hearing --- No option left: Judge said he will approve hospital sale
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Pharma:

Troubled AMAG snaps up fresh-from-bankruptcy Lumara in $1.25B deal
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Paper:

Great Northern creditors want bankruptcy case moved to Maine --- Trustee objects
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Alternative Energy:

Vision Industries Has Ties to Really Cool People
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Ericsson to Buy Ambient Corp. Out of Bankruptcy
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Student Debt:

US Treasury doesn't see student loans leading to meltdown
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Brokers:

Illinois Federal Court Permits Customer and IB Claims to Proceed Against U.S. Bank Over Peregrine Collapse
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Weather:

Water rationing hits California: limit of 50 gallons per person per day or face fines of $500
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Tax:

Escaping Taxes in Bankruptcy Through S Corporations
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Fed Report: IRS Bungles Hunt for Unpaid Taxes
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Tax breaks worth billions set to expire unless Congress acts
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Construction:

Truland asks again for more time to detail who it owes
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Economy:

Study finds recession can postpone motherhood forever
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Consumer spending rises 0.5%, personal income up 0.3% --- Americans are spending again
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27 new billionaires in richest Americans list --- Inside The 2014 Forbes 400: Facts And Figures About America's Wealthiest --- The Incredible Life Of Bill Gates, Who Is Still America's Richest Man --- Larry Ellison Is A Billionaire Today Thanks To The CIA --- The Richest Women In America 2014
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Dallas Fed report: Texas manufacturing growth accelerates in September
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Richard Fisher Raises Worry About Inflation
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Bill Clinton: Why US Wages are Stagnant
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Finally, The US Manufacturing Renaissance Is Happening
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Pending home sales dip in August as investors pull back
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Bill Gross exit could cost Pimco $400 billion --- Gross's Last Defiance Stuns Allianz, Pimco in Janus Move --- PIMCO Just Erased Bill Gross From Its History --- Vanguard, BlackRock May Reap Billions From Pimco After Gross Exit --- Pimco Staff Are 'Frantic And Sad'
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Here's Where The US Really Gets Its Oil
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A 'Poisonous Combination' Of Debt and Stagnation Could Sink The Recovery
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Gross Trades Against Gross. Should Be Fun for Pimco
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Why Peak-Oil Predictions Haven't Come True
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US poised to become world’s leading liquid petroleum producer
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Wealthiest ZIP Code In The Nation
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:

Contracts to buy homes slide in August --- Down 2.2% year-over-year
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Program seeks to speed up backlog of foreclosures - Trustees would conduct short sales while homes are still tied up in bankruptcy
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US top court, in reversal, dismisses IndyMac securities case
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Flagstar Bank to Pay Homeowners 27.5 Million
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Stock Falls 45% After Company Abandons Plan To Become A REIT, Decides To Move To Canada
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A High-Frequency Trader Is Selling The Most Expensive Home In Houston For $43 Million
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Municipalities:

Detroit Bankruptcy Judge Refuses to Halt Water Shutoffs --- No right to free water --- Judge's decision on Detroit water shutoffs may be appealed
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Day 12: Detroit’s Bankruptcy Trial
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Judge allows suit to proceed over closed-door Orr talks --- Davis can sue Detroit council over Orr tenure deal
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Holdout creditor FGIC wants Detroit cash, land --- Source: Detroit close to deal with last major creditor
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Michigan's emergency manager law worked after all
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Here is a brief overview of Merrill, Michigan's 1987 bankruptcy filing
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Stockton schedules special city council meetings Tuesday and Wednesday
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Why everybody is moving to Texas
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Retailing:

American Apparel Hires Turnaround Expert As Interim CEO --- More drama at American Apparel
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In Sears free fall, its CEO may do well
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RadioShack Still Fighting An Uphill Battle?
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Mass Torts:

Death toll from GM ignition switches now at 23
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Lehman:

Revisiting the Lehman Brothers Bailout That Never Was
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Personal Finance:

The Worst Things To Buy In October
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8 Surprising Things You Can Get For Free
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Becoming Financially Independent: Habits to Make You A Millionaire
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Celebs:

'Real Housewives of New Jersey': The United States vs. Joe and Teresa Giudice
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Teresa Giudice To Be Fired From ‘Real Housewives of New Jersey?’
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Teresa Giudice Sentence Hearing: Bravo Star Likely To Be On House Arrest, But Reportedly Can't Find New Home
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Antoine Walker no longer embarrassed over being broke
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Gambling:

Would-be Revel buyers slated to reconvene for Tuesday auction in New York City
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Bidder for Atlantic City's Revel to contest auction if he loses
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Millions sought to keep Trump Taj Mahal open
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Mayor Don Guardian Declines to Lower Taxes to Save Trump Taj Mahal
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Ichan weighs $100M bid to save Taj Mahal casino --- Trump's Last-Ditch Effort to Save Casino May Include Carl Icahn - Billionaire Investor Weighs $100 Million Capital for Casino If Union Agrees to New Deal
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Trump Entertainment bankruptcy case ramps up
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Trump Entertainment: End union pension for casino
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Caesars ‘loyalty’ ruling a win for Leon Black’s Apollo, increases likelihood of casinos' bankruptcy filing
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Ultimate Poker Future Unclear After New Jersey Exit
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Autos:

Ford shares plunge on bad news
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Ford Europe Return To Profit Delayed, Long-term Forecast Cut
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Aviation:

Chicago shutdown will cost airlines 'hundreds of millions'
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Chicago Flight Disruptions Ease as FAA Shifts Air Control
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Danish airline calls it quits
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Fraud:

Big Banks Manipulated $21 Trillion Dollar Market for Credit Default Swaps
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Bankruptcy Crime:

Montour man sentenced to 18 months for bankruptcy fraud
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Williamstown woman indicted for bankruptcy fraud after inheriting $100k from nursing home patient
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Publishing:

NYC publisher agrees to pay $1.6M for Good Books
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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 (18 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (10 new filings today)
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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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Bankruptcy Statistics:

Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Finance:

Make Whole Provisions In Bankruptcy
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MPM Silicones Latest Court to Whittle Away at Secured Creditor Protections: Plan Confirmed Providing Secured Creditors with Below Market Replacement Notes
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Cross-Border:

Second Circuit Vacates Bankruptcy Court's Refusal to Review Foreign Debtor's Sale of U.S. Asset
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TBTF:

Ex-AIG Chief Greenberg Looks to Scorch Government in Trial
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The AIG Bailout Trial – The Short Answer --- AIG Shareholders Have Day in Court: What's at Stake? --- A.I.G. Trial Witnesses Will Be Central Cast From 2008 Crisis
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Greenberg suit claims AIG was penalized
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As AIG Trial Begins, Hank Greenberg Makes the Case for Hank Greenberg
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Will We Find Out Why The Feds Did What They Did?
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AIG Bailout by U.S. Was 'Extortion,' Greenberg Lawyer Says
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Bizarre Trial Accuses Government Of Illegally Bailing Out AIG
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Food/Beverage:

Judge: Crumbs-Branded Cupcakes Can Stay in Stores for Now
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Banking:

SEC Investigation Sheds Light on BofA's $4 Billion Mistake
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UBS Restructuring Shows Need for Banking's Simpler Future - But Ending 'Too Big to Fail' Is Going to Be Costly
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Sovereigns:

Griesa to decide whether to hold country in contempt
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Argentina in Contempt of Court, U.S. Judge Rules --- Argentina Found In Contempt --- Argentina Found in Contempt by NY Bond Fight Judge --- US debt sanctions would be illegal, says Argentina --- US judge Thomas Griesa declares Argentina in contempt of court, monetary fine decision postponed
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US court ruling on Argentine debt violates int'l law
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Argentina to deposit Par coupon payment Tuesday -source
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U.S. Courts To Join Holdouts In Argentina Repossession Game?
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Argentina Asks Judge to Deny Hedge Funds' Contempt Bid
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Argentina warns US of 'consequences' of possible judge Griesa contempt order
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So Long, Then, Cristina Fernandez De Kirchner
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Citi Can Make Argentine Bond Payment
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What happens if Nauru runs out of money?
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UK:

Insolvency Claims – The end of recovering premiums and success fees
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U.K. GDP Grows 0.9% as Strength of Recovery Revised Up
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Royal Bank of Scotland cuts $1.3 billion from provision pot as economy improves
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Begbies warns of challenging year ahead --- Begbies bemoans challenging insolvency market
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EU:

Weak eurozone inflation data raises pressure on ECB
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EU questions Ireland's tax deal with Apple
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Eurozone Inflation Continues To Slip
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Europe Ticking All the Wrong Boxes Starts Mirroring Japan
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PIIGS:

Could Fraud and Money Laundering Litigation Impede Miami's Espirito Santo's Bank Sale? --- Espirito Santo Bank sued over bad $38M investment in related company
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Canada:

No Loss is No Defense: Asset-Flipping and Fraudulent Misrepresentation in Receiverships
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XS Cargo fails to restructure, starts liquidating stores --- Discount retailer to close its 50 stores
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U.S. Steel bankruptcy affects small businesses
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Canadian Economy Still Waiting for its Growth Spurt
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U.S. Steel seeks incentive payouts to retain 'key employees'
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Germany:

German Unemployment Unexpectedly Rises as Risks Increase
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Hong Kong:

Hong Kong Protesters Are Furious About A 30-Year-Old Broken Promise
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Day 2 Hong Kong Protests: Unbelievably Huge --- Hong Kong protesters brace for police action
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Hong Kong's Tipping Point Is Coming --- Hong Kong Leader Says Beijing Won't Back Down
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China:

China manufacturing steady in Sept.: HSBC PMI
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MENA:

ISIS Seems To Be Getting Closer And Closer To Baghdad
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Brazil:

Brazil corporate defaults fall in August, Serasa says
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Brazil Study Shows 30 Ethanol Mills Near Bankruptcy , Valor Says
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Jamaica:

MIIC: Bankruptcy Act to be tabled today
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Australia:

Insolvency Update
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SMEs dominate corporate insolvency rates
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September shocker as Australian shares lose $90 billion
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