Law:
As Jurors Fight Drowsiness, Bank Exec Takes Stand At Dewey Trial • Prosecutors Cite Emails Suggesting Dewey Defendants Duped Lenders
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UK court says ex-Dewey leader must repay $540K capital loan; he hopes US court will cancel it • Barclays wins case over loans to law firm partners
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Layoff Watch: Biglaw Firm Hands Out 100+ Pink Slips • New Back Office at Littler Mendelson Prompts Layoffs
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Law School Applications Keep Falling
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Young Lawyers Could Face ‘Tax Bomb,’ Says Professor
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After a Year of Departures, Firm Suffers Gut Punch
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Boies, Schiller & Flexner to Move to NYC’s Hudson Yards
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Elite Female Lawyers Still See Few Name Partners Among Them
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Childless Women Are Scorned
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Lawyerly Lairs: Skadden Royals Sell Their Palatial Pad For $11.8 Million
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Gateley partners receive £25m from successful UK flotation • It’s Easy To Joke About Money When You Own A $4.8M Stake Of Your Firm
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Corporate Lawyers Get A New Toy
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Barnes & Thornburg opens Dallas office with 2 partners from Gardere Wynne
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Receiver Asks Court to Revoke Napoli's Access to Firm Funds
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Freshfields chucks £500 pay rise at trainees as top partners take home nearly £1.5m
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Nelson Mullins opens NYC office, expands capital markets practice
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SCOTUS sides with Jenner’s Steege in Wellness case
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2L Embarrassed On Late Night TV
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Summer Fun For Law Students
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Why lawyers will love iOS 9
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Which MacBook? Choosing Between Stamina, Speed and Style in Apple’s Laptops
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Why Data Visualization Is Becoming An Important Legal Trend
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Lawyers Over-65 - Should ABA Develop Competency Tests As Is AMA
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Expansion Strategy a Factor In Nelson Brown's Decline
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11th Circuit OKs in-cell trial of defendant who said he would come to court ‘kicking and screaming’
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Take it From The Tao: Know When to Stop Talking
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GC: It’s My Job to Explain Business to Outside Lawyers
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The Modern Gentleman has a critical decision to make when tying his tie
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Apple's newest software will help fix one of the biggest problems with the iPhone
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Superintendent drops charges for cheering at graduation; ACLU sees First Amendment violation
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The Feds Have Their Own Crop Of Whacky-Tobacky In The Heart Of Mississippi
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Kentucky Police Are Completely Awful
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Lawyer tries to hire hitman to kill wife
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'Jeoffrey' commits multiple torts against Catelyn and Sansa in Game of Thrones-inspired law exam
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Sacked Apprentice lawyer wants you to fund her business
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2nd Circuit: Man gets new trial in major tax fraud case because suspended lawyer lied to get on jury
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Lawyer and self-described 'crook' lied her way onto a huge criminal fraud trial
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Witness Declines to Comment by Stubbing Cigarette Out in Reporter's Face
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Police: Man on stolen bulldozer smashed occupied house to smithereens, violating a protective order
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Judges:
Reid rips McConnell over judges
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SEC Appointment of In-House Judges ‘Likely Unconstitutional’
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Scalia skewers graduation platitudes at granddaughter’s commencement
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Law professor: Supreme Court ruling against gay marriage would produce 'chaos'
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Prosecutor seeks judge’s removal for allegedly interfering with intern’s drunken-driving arrest
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Why Has a Key Federal Judgeship in Wisconsin Been Vacant for 2,000 Days?
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Supreme Court justices rule in favor of companies they invest in, study finds
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Did A Judge Just Undermine The Administrative State With SEC Ruling?
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Scalia Gives Shout-Out To Creationists
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Wall Street:
AP analysis: More 'phony numbers' in reports as stocks rise
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Stock pullback coming this summer: Analysts
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Alleged Flash-Trade Mastermind Lived With Parents and Couldn’t Drive
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Layoffs:
National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Mining:
What may be next for the last US rare earths miner
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Retailing:
What's next for Sears? Only Eddie Lampert knows for sure • Is Sears Going Bankrupt ?
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Future of Family Christian Stores in flux as bankruptcy judge hears objections to sale • Family Christian Stores awaits ruling after marathon hearing
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Quicksilver – the Death Spiral Begins
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Satellites:
Ex-Im Hasn't Given Up on Recovering $100 Million NewSat Launch
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Environmental:
Settlement proposal filed in Freedom Industries lawsuit
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Autos:
Fiat Shares -- Worth More Dead Than Alive? • Prosecutors Broadly Use Mail-Fraud, Wire-Fraud Statutes
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Economy:
Job openings jump to highest since December 2000 • BLS: Jobs Openings increased to 5.4 million in April, Highest on Record
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JPMorgan Economist: Get Ready for the Economy to Produce Way Fewer Jobs
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Millennial job woes are a drag on the U.S. economy
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Why Job Growth Isn't Helping Many Americans
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Poll: CEOs Now Lukewarm on the Economy
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Wholesale inventories up 0.4% in April, versus expectations for 0.2% gain
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Ben Bernanke: I'm not sure so sure about that Wall Street Journal op-ed about the Fed
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The US labor market is rapidly approaching a major milestone: full employment
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Guess who's spending billions to create US jobs
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Where Did All the Construction Workers Go?
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FactCheck: US 6.6M Working Part Time
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Gen X Is All Grown Up and Still Miserable
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:
These Are the 13 Cities Where Millennials Can't Afford a Home
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Las Vegas Real Estate in May: Sales Decreased 2.5% YoY
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Mortgage Applications Increase in Latest Weekly Survey, Purchase Index up 15% YoY
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What you’d need to earn in every state to rent a decent apartment
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The baby boomer building boom
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Foreclosure inventory sinks 25% in April • The top 5 foreclosure hot spots
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Hovnanian shares tumble as incentives weigh on earnings
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Survey: Most Americans believe the housing crisis isn't over
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Grove Estates collects confirmation
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Municipalities:
Puerto Rico Needs Reform, Not Bankruptcy
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Setting the record straight on Puerto Rico
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Puerto Rico Path to Easing Cash Crunch Hinges on Insurer Demands
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Puerto Rico's debt crisis and the siren song of after-the-fact bankruptcy
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PA: Municipal pension bill clears hurdle
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Rauner Says Illinois Speaker Makes Millions From Tax System
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Christie's pension cuts ruling reversed
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Oil/Gas:
Oil prices climb; demand forecasts ahead • Crude oil is spiking
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Boomerang Tube files of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
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Primera Files Bankruptcy in Wake of Receivership • Primera Energy opposes Chapter 11 trustee • Tempers flare at Primera Energy bankruptcy hearing • Alfaro loses control of Primera Energy’s assets
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Three Possible Takeover Targets In The Canadian Oil Patch
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A Glut For Natural Gas Too?
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Cerberus Said to Plot Samson Workout Plan Against Blackstone
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EIA: Major U.S Shale Plays Have Peaked, Expect Decline To Kick In
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Saudi Arabia says it's pumping more oil to meet higher demand
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Corporate Reform:
Dentons client RBS ordered to hand over privileged documents in Libor case
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Top banks pay $300 billion on post-crisis litigation - as costs continue to rise
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Treasuries Collusion Said to Be Hunted in Next Wave of Probes
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The bank that was ‘too big to jail’ will lay off 25,000 workers
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Why Elizabeth Warren is wrong about the SEC
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Accounting:
As FIFA Scandal Grows, Focus Turns To Auditor KPMG
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Fraud:
July Trial Date For Cay Clubs Principals In Alleged $300 Million Ponzi Scheme
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$102 Million Demand on Banks for Ponzi
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Did European partner help Rezko stiff a creditor?
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How Corrupt is America?
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Aviation:
American Joins Delta in Cutting Revenue Forecast as Demand Slips
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Politics:
Deep in debt, Rubio bought an $80,000 speedboat and leased a $50,000 luxury SUV • Rubio said to have ‘struggled’ with his finances
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Student Debt:
Questions of Cost in Plan to Aid Defrauded Students
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Blaming personal finance victims for their moral failings is easy. They’re not the problem.
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The default in our student loans
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Student Debt Strikers Call Fed's Loan Forgiveness Plan a Bureaucratic Sham
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Committee Requests Freeze on Student Loan Collection in Bankruptcy of For-Profit College • Corinthian students ask court to freeze debts
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Disruption:
Now disruptors are going after the financial sector
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Why disruption happens a lot less often than CEOs think
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Weather:
U.S. has its wettest May on record
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Coal:
Peabody Energy: Give ‘Em Credit But It’s Still All About Coal Prices
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Unsecured creditors object to Patriot's bankruptcy loan
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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 (34 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (31 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:
(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 Statistics:
Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Avoidance Actions:
Standard Register creditors file suit over WorkflowOne deal
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Cross-Border:
Pitfalls for Foreign Enterprises Seeking To Restructure Under the Bankruptcy Code
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Litigation:
eDiscovery Is Moving to the Cloud
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Insurance:
D&O Insurance: Debtor-in-Possession Claims and the Insured vs. Insured Exclusion
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Privacy:
The best ways to keep your identity safe, according to the world's top security experts
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Soccer:
FIFA's Jack Warner allegedly stole $750,000 of Haiti earthquake money
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Administrators announce Parma bid not valid
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Gambling:
Casino union to Icahn: Benefit elimination 'not OK'
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In Atlantic City, the gold's turning to sand
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Education:
Face it: America’s experiment with for-profit colleges has failed
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When a for-profit college goes under, who should pay?
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Guns:
Gun maker Colt heads toward bankruptcy showdown with bondholders
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Personal Finance:
Five Things I Was Willing to Give Up to Save Money
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Auto Racing:
Ferrari: New rules must not bankrupt teams
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Banking:
These Are Global Banking's Winners and Losers Since the Crisis
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Radio:
Bankruptcy Buy Results in Big ROI
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Catalog and Mail Order:
Can CVSL Inc. Avoid Bankruptcy ?
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Celebs:
Todd Chrisley's Wife Tolls Company Bankruptcy Case
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Mass Torts:
Report: GM investigated for wire fraud
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Sovereigns:
A judge ruled Argentina owes $5.4 billion, not $1.7 billion -- and everyone is freaking out
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Belgium to Block ''Vulture'' Funds from Profiting on Government Debt
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UK:
U.K. looks at new crackdown on markets
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EU:
S&P Cuts Ratings on European Banks
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Will HSBC Job Cuts Be a Blueprint for European Banks?
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European Equities Contract as Greece Approaches Economic Crossroads
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PIIGS:
Grexit would be 'start of the end for the eurozone,' says Tsipras • German FinMin Schaeuble: Things With Greece Are Still Complicated • European Commission President: Meeting Tsipras Now a Waste of Time • Greek Govt: We Have Compromised, Expect Institutions to Meet Us Half Way
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New Greek Budget Plan Falls Short of Last Week’s Pledge • EU officials swiftly dismiss new Greek reform offer • Germany's Schaeuble says differences remain • Greece working to revise proposal to seal deal by Wednesday-source • Greeks chose poverty, let them have their way • It's time to end the pretense: Greece will never fully repay its bailout loans • Greek exit would trigger eurozone collapse - Tsipras
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Pensions in Greece Feel the Pinch of Debt Negotiations
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Canada:
B.C. Court of Appeal Affirms Refusal to Certify Business Practices and Consumer Protection Act Claims
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France:
Despite the recovery, more and more companies go bankrupt
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Germany:
German BaFin permits origination, restructuring and prolongation of loans to German borrowers by certain funds without a banking license
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India:
Banks see new bad debt rules as step in right direction
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Serbia:
Most of 526 companies undergoing privatization will file for bankruptcy
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