Law:
Where Are The Biglaw Bonuses? Associate Bonus Watch, Day 4
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Were We Wrong About This Law Firm? Probably, Yeah.
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Akerman Launches National Fraud and Recovery Team
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Dickstein Shapiro is said to be discussing a merger
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Two Birds hires Paris insolvency litigator
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ABA urges SCOTUS to review decision that ‘opens the floodgates’ to disclosure of work product
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Don’t Sell Convenience
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Top Linklaters’ lawyer takes home $4.8 million a year - 76 times as much as trainee
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Today’s Tech: How Litigators Use Scrivener (Part 1)
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Elite Law School Dean Says Grads Don’t Need To Worry About Debt If They’re Willing To Be Poor
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Law School Rankings By 'Super Lawyer' Alumni
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Law student charged with hacking into university computer system to boost his marks
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Law Students Disciplined For Vulgar Intramural Team Name
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Survey Says In-House Counsel Like Law Firm Alerts More Than Blogs
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Money Isn’t Everything With In-House Careers
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10 Ways to Transform your Legal Department
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Lawyers as Whistleblowers? New York Judge Says No
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Once A Lawyer, Not Always A Lawyer
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Here’s What it Looks Like on the Law-Firm Shareholder Rollercoaster
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5 ways to change your body language to make people like you
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Use These Words, Not Those Words
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Researchers found out how many miles a week you need to run to improve your health — and it’s surprisingly low
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San Bernardino shooting: Gunman appears radicalized • Shooters Lived a Double Life • These are the 14 people killed in San Bernardino • Stories of Those Who Died •The Daily News cover calls mass-shooting suspects ‘terrorists' • Was San Bernardino Mass Shooting an Act of Terrorism? Depends on Motive • The leaders of the mosques where the California shooter prayed say shooting betrayed Islam
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Six things Americans should know about mass shootings • US Has Had Fewer Mass Shootings • US Has Had More Mass Shootings
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A man's collection of nearly 5,000 guns shows how easy it is stockpile firearms in the US
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Senate kills bid to block gun sales to terrorists
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Appeals court tosses conviction in ‘cannibal cop’ case, says fantasizing about murder isn’t a crime
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Texas agency sues to block Syrian refugees, cites state’s ‘sovereign authority’
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The Strangest Things Lawyers Have Tried to Bill For
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Apps That Fight Your Parking Tickets
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The case of the 'lunatic' pony
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Mass Tort Lawyers Gone Wild - What Happens in Vegas.....
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Judge orders takeover of controversial Minneapolis lawyer's assets
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Legal insurer ISIS stands up to terrorists with mad ad
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Lawyer charged £750 an hour to attend client’s funeral
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Lawyer pouts on vaguely spicy website
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That Feeling When You Win a Supreme Court Case… And Get Nothing
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Revered Florida trial attorney dies at his law office at age 85
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Federal judge blasts DOJ for seizing $908K in client funds from law firm trust account
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Reinventing The Law Business: What Can The New ‘Star Wars’ Movie Teach Us? Porter’s Five Forces Applied To The Legal Profession (Part 2)
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How To Get Away With Murder’s Mid-Season Finale Is Predictable And Underwhelming
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Judges:
Man asks for federal prison time in judge-threat case so he can get mental health treatment
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Judge accused of inappropriate ear tug tells New Jersey Supreme Court he ‘failed the judiciary’
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Judge Posner Tackles Justice Scalia’s Obsession With Gay Marriage
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Wall Street:
Wall Street set for comeback
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U.S. Stocks Tumble Amid Yellen Testimony, ECB's Stimulus Moves
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How to protect yourself from the sell-off: Gartman
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Layoffs:
More than 700 layoffs at Newport News Shipbuilding
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Coal:
Protesters Push Banks to Cut Funding for Coal Mining
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Ex-Massey CEO guilty in deadly coal mine blast • Ex-Coal CEO Verdict Sets Precedent
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Going Down Noisily: The Rise and Fall of a Coal Tycoon
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World Has 118 Million Metric Tons of Coal It Doesn't Need
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Eco-laws and the rise of cheap energy fan slow burnout of coal
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With Coal Industry Under Pressure, Some See Long-Term Decline
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Electricity:
Energy Future Wins Approval of Settlement Behind Debt Plan
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Energy Future's bankruptcy exit plan approved by court
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Bankruptcy judge OKs proposed breakup of Energy Future Holdings
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Energy Future Holdings Reorganization Plan Nets Court OK
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Personal Finance:
Women have discovered a smart way to save a fortune on wedding dress shopping
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Retailing:
J. Crew's Goodwill Writedown Latest Sign Of Trouble
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The Last Days of Sears
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Student Debt:
More federal loan debt forgiven for Corinthian students
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Report: Enrollment in Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program is Lagging
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Data Shows Borrowers With Less Student Loan Debt More Likely To Default
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Economy:
ISM services index falls by most since 2008 • ISM Non-Manufacturing Index Decreased to 55.9% in November
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Factory orders rise 1.5%
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What to watch out for in November jobs report • How strong job growth is a really a sign of weakness: Baum • Here's what 20 top Wall Street experts are expecting for the jobs report • Goldman: November Employment Preview
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Jobless claims up
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What's holding back Main Street's resurgence
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Downplaying risk of recession, Fed's Janet Yellen indicates an interest rate hike is coming this month • Yellen dismisses talk of 65% chance of recession • 'It will have to be a disaster for the Fed to delay' • The Fed Will Raise Rates, But Should It?
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Bill Gross thinks Fed is ‘casino’ printing money
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Dow skids 200, S&P falls 1% as Street weighs rate hike
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Financial bubbles are much harder to spot than people realize
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Billionaire Bonanza: The Forbes 400 And The Rest Of Us
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Senate approves first long-term highway bill in a decade • A Highway Bill We'll Regret
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UBS summed up the 'third wave' of the financial crisis in 2 charts
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Popular Tax Breaks Could Go Away Again
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US Class 8 Truck Orders Drop 60%
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:
1 million homeowners emerge from underwater in 3Q
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Freddie Mac: Mortgage Serious Delinquency rate declined in October, Lowest since October 2008
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It's going to get even harder for first-time buyers
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Pessimism is starting to creep into the US housing market
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Luxury home prices post biggest drop since 2012
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Franklin American Mortgage fined $70 million for False Claims Act violations
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Millennial wish list: The top 5 trendy housing markets for 2016
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Average US rate on 30-year mortgages slips to 3.93 percent
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Study blames A&P bankruptcy for spike in retail vacancy rate
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Municipalities:
Congress Goofed. Puerto Rico Pays.
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U.S. High Court Set to Act on Puerto Rico Restructuring Bid
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Washington Divided on Response to Puerto Rico Debt Woes
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Gov. Snyder, Detroit Mayor Duggan join at Wayne State for post-bankruptcy talk
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Domino Effect: Are Commercial Real Estate Value Changes Going to Bankrupt Providence?
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Mass Torts:
NYC asbestos firm seeks info behind study on lucrative consolidated trials, will drop it if defendants stop mentioning it
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Food/Beverage:
Sale of subletted stores could raise $28M for A&P
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Politics:
Trump to Jewish group: Am negotiator like ‘you folks’ • Donald Trump's speech to Republican Jews was filled with anti-Semitic stereotypes • Obama has done ‘nothing’ for African-Americans • Trump Admits That Bargaining Skills Aren't Everything
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The Immigration Questions Ted Cruz Won't Answer
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Hey, Candidates, Can't You Hear America Booming?
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Republican reactions to San Bernardino changed a lot after learning a shooter was Muslim
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Paul Ryan Has an Idea
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Oil/Gas:
Fri.: Crude prices edge up on OPEC decision day
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OPEC staff warn low prices will persist no matter what
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Chesapeake Bonds Fall on Debt Layering
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LGO pays creditors in shares leaving cash for production
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Saudis say ‘you cut first’ as oil prices drop • Iran and Saudi Arabia are agreed: they’ll keep on pumping • Potential OPEC Cut? It Depends On Non-OPEC Nations Now • Why Saudi Arabia won't play nice at OPEC meeting • The 3 factors that are overwhelming OPEC
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Kemp: Oil Storage Business Is Booming
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North America’s Best Shale Patch
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The OPEC countries hit hardest by low oil prices
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Saudi Arabia at tipping point due to oil plunge • Here's why Saudi Arabia is burning through cash
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Rig Operator Vantage Drilling Files for Bankruptcy
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Oil tanker rates jump to seven-year high as ships forced to wait
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Quiet hurricane season leaves oil oversupply
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Russian energy minister says cutting oil output isn’t viable
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The American energy story in 10 charts
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Derivatives:
Lehman Brothers And The Treatment Of Derivatives In Bankruptcy
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Religion:
Pope Orders Audit of Church's Wealth as Whistleblowers Pursued
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Fraud:
November 2015 Ponzi Scheme Roundup
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Bernie Madoff looks small-time next to this conman
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Corzine Tells Students to Take Some Risk, Doesn't Name MF Global
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Former Montco hedge fund ordered to pay millions
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Religion:
Approved archdiocese expenses in bankruptcy now top $5 million
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Concerts:
Music Festival Producer SFX Could Face Free-Fall Bankruptcy
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Tax:
IRS List of Tax Cheats
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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 (23 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (12 new filings today)
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Bankruptcy Code - Prior BK Codes - Bankruptcy Rules
(large downloads)
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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Bankruptcy Statistics:
The List of Corporate Debtors Teetering on Trouble Is Rising
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AACER: Bankruptcy Filings Experience Rare Year-Over-Year Climb
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Monthly Bankruptcy Filings Mixed
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Tomato grower tops Tampa Bay's biggest bankruptcies in 2015
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Exemptions:
Not a Pretty Picture: The Snapshot Rule and Texas Homestead Exemptions
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Sales:
Junior Claims Paid Ahead of Seniors in a Section 363 Sale
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Autos:
Forget the Lawyers: Here’s What Will Decide the Volkswagen Suits
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VW Could Pay Billions to Diesel Owners
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Audi: Engineer suspended in crisis quits board
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Volkswagen sales are still getting smashed
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Banking:
Just How Sound Is The Banking System?
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Fed Said to Weigh Easing Stress Tests After Plea From U.S. Banks
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Healthcare:
Health spending growth rate surges to 5.3% under ACA
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Senate votes to repeal big chunks of Obamacare
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These are the fattest states in America
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IP:
Licenses and Bankruptcy: My Version of a Section 365(n) Provision
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Music:
Losses point to bleak future for music streaming services
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Mining:
Glencore's Credit Rating Strained If Copper Rout Continues
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Agriculture:
Agri-Fine Files Chapter 11, Blaming High Transport Costs, Commodity Price Drop
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Celebs:
Shoe Queen Tamara Mellon Puts Luxury Line in Bankruptcy
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EU:
Here’s why investors booed ECB stimulus plans • European stocks slammed
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Draghi Convinces All But Five Officials on ECB Proposal
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European Stocks Fall as Draghi Stimulus Disappointment Lingers
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Mario Draghi's Impossible Task
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PIGGS:
Report sheds light on complexity of Spain's indebted Abengoa • Abengoa Breaks Spanish Election Taboo With Calls for Bailout
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Canada:
Laura's bounces back from bankruptcy protection
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Great Western Minerals is Bankrupt
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Germany:
Hamburg law firm in as Pickenpack administrator
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China:
China's 10-Year Bond Yield Declines This Week as Economy Slows
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Russia:
Russian President Sees Worrying Signs in the Economy
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Brazil:
Brazil Declares War on Itself
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Olympic athletes will have to pay for their own air conditioning in Rio de Janeiro
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France:
French tycoon Tapie says faces total ruin after court ruling
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The French economy is having the week from hell
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Mauritius:
Mauritius Insolvency Law in 60 Seconds
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Mexico:
Mexico government speeds some payments to help cash-strapped ICA
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India:
Defaulted Bonds, Made in India, Now On Sale to Global Pioneers
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