February 8, 2016

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Law:

What’s Going On At Kasowitz Benson?
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The Start of 2016 Brings Contraction to the Legal Sector
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ABA Resolution Stirs Fears of Non-Lawyer Firm Ownership
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The Nobility of Good Lawyers With Bad Clients
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Don’t Wait Until After You Get Your Bonus To Start Looking
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Fried Frank hires partner to run restructuring practice
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Heidi J. Sorvino Joins LeClairRyan
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'Making a Murderer' has something in common with the most notorious case of the '90s
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Dechert PEP rises to $2.5m as revenue grows 6 per cent
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Law firm among pioneering employers who OK worker use of medical marijuana
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Big Law and Big Data: On What’s Legal and What’s Creepy
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UK: Kirkland & Ellis latest firm to join ‘100 club’ with junior lawyer pay boost - Legal Cheek
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Lawyers More Hungover Than Surgeons
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In The Attorney-Client Relationship, You Are The Service Professional
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Georgetown Law Tells Students: No Political Campaigning on Campus
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Crane collapse kills 1, injures 3 and hits New York legal community hard
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Science says these are the 15 best ways to manage stress
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Change Your Job? Or Change Your Perspective?
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10 habits of extremely boring people
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Nashville: ?H3gm's head on why one of city's biggest law firms is folding up its tent
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The best and worst ways to sign off a work email
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Microsoft's virtual assistant Cortana 'will get mad' if you 'say things that are offensive
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Phoenix City Council drops opening prayer to thwart Satanic group
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Contracts between cities and police unions guarantee complaints against cops will be kept secret
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Chicago policeman sues estate of teen he fatally shot
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California jury awards $5.7 million to former PTA president framed with drugs by angry parents
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Attorney defending his own murder-for-hire case says he was framed by jailhouse 'snitch'
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Doctor gets 30 years to life in landmark prosecution over patient OD deaths
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'Affluenza' kid Ethan Couch in a Big Boy Jail Now
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Rejecting 30-day recommendation, top court suspends lawyer for a year for s-- with client
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Former law firm office manager gets 27 months for stealing $265K over 30 months
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The Beauty Of Watching The Courtroom On Stage
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Judges:

Montana bankruptcy judge announces retirement
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Former judge sentenced to prison for five years for embezzlement
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Restaurant confab leads to arrest of 3 accused of planning to kidnap and rob judge
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Disgraced Former Judge Now Working At Chick-fil-A
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Chief Justice Roberts Wishes You’d Believe SCOTUS Isn’t Political
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Political War Against Kansas Supreme Court
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Wall Street:

Dow futures slip triple-digits as growth fears grip markets Stock futures point to sharp losses for Wall Street
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Global stocks mostly fall amid economy jitters
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Pack your bags, Wall Streeters: Your jobs are moving to Nashville
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Why the rout could continue in the week ahead
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Jeremy Grantham says this isn’t the big bear market
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Too much cash, too few good stocks to invest in
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The only place left to invest if ‘Oilmageddon ‘ hits this market
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Gundlach Calls Financial Stocks Below Crisis Prices ‘Frightening’
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Layoffs:

US Jobs Report: Mining Down 7,000; Loss of 800 in Oil, Gas
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Lost Oil Jobs Are a Drag
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Microfibres employee files lawsuit over WARN Act violation
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Chevron to cut 385 jobs in Covington, Lafayette
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Genworth to layoff about 200 Lynchburg employees
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Blackberry Cuts Jobs in Push to Profit
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Personal Finance:

7 billionaires who are extremely frugal
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The 11 smartest things to do with your money in your 20s
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Distressed Investing:

Get Ready For 37% More Motivational Tweets, Photoshoots On The Beach From Lynn Tilton Lynn Tilton Steps Down From $2.5 Billion CLO Funds Patriarch Steps Down From Zohar, Steps Back From MBIA Fight
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The Effects of Rising Interest Rates on Junk Bonds
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Food/Beverage:

Ovation Brands' closes 74 underperforming locations
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Scandal-ridden Iowa kosher slaughterhouse is back in business
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NY: Fairway facing danger of possible bankruptcy
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Corporate Reform:

Warren's Criminal Complaint
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Student Debt:

Politics could stymie loan plan
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Why College Tuition Cuts Can Actually Lead to Higher Bills
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Need to slash student debt ? Watch out for rip-offs
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Coal:

Feds seeking settlement in coal mining lawsuits
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Bankrupt coal producer Alpha announces more planned layoffs
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Moratorium shakes coal stronghold
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Wyoming lawmakers facing falling revenues in budget session
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Walter Energy scores $50M lifeline, buyer for assets
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Peabody Energy Could File For Bankruptcy Unless Bowie Gets Financing
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Art:

When art imitates life: Student debt crisis on display at New York exhibit
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Aviation:

SeaPort declares bankruptcy
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Fraud:

FBI investigating East Bay wine company, bankruptcy trustee says
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World’s Best Chef’ Benoit Violier Dies In Apparent Suicide After Falling Victim To Million Dollar Wine Scam
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Why Is the U.S. Still Sitting on $4 Billion in Madoff Money?
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Celebs:

Rich Dad Broke Dad?
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The Sad Financial Future That Awaits Many NFL Players
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Teresa Giudice paid off $414K restitution, lawyer says
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Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott Reportedly Move for the 7th Time in 5 Years
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Dershowitz: OJ Simpson’s ‘dream team’ was actually a nightmare team
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‘Real Housewives Of Potomac’ Star Robyn Dixon Opens Up About Past Money Troubles And Living With Her Ex
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Trick Daddy Facing Foreclosure After Bankruptcy Dismissal
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Borgata Wants $170,000 in Unpaid Debts from Former NFL Star Clinton Portis
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Pharma:

KaloBios Won’t Get Bankruptcy Trustee to Oversee It
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Shkreli No Longer to Blame for $750 Pill
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Hotels:

FL: Beachfront hotel files bankruptcy reorganization
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Bay Area Airbnb Hosts Cry Foul Over Weak Super Bowl Weekend Demand
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Soccer:

Parma Storm to Top of Italy's 4th-Tier Just Months After Bankruptcy
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Mass Torts:

Asbestos Bill Hearing Set as John Crane Files RICO Suits
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Shipping:

Dry-Bulk Shipping: Hitting the Bottom Dry-bulk shipping under water as bankruptcies rise
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Paper:

Verso reaches agreement with creditors for debt reorganization
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Electricity:

Oncor to regulators: Hunt deal could raise rates
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Pensions:

Teamsters pension crisis driving deep cuts for retirees
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Newspapers:

Chicago: Is The Sun-Times In Trouble? Board Member Tells Staff Not To Worry
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New York Times is Profitable, but Barely
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Metals:

Noranda Aluminum files for bankruptcy Expects To Receive Up To $165 Million In New Financing To Enhance Liquidity
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Zinc shines amid the gloom but what lurks in New Orleans?
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Lehman:

Lehman Bros. hit the rocks, but lives on as Scotch
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Economy:

Wages rise, unemployment falls. Is Main Street beating Wall Street? US created 151K jobs in Jan; unemployment rate at 4.9% U.S. Unemployment Drops to an Almost Eight-Year Low Here’s four reasons the January jobs report is fishy What’s Behind January’s Higher Wage Growth The January Jobs Report in 12 Charts Bill Gross: U.S. Underemployment Rate Didn't Change
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Treasury yields rise as the jobs report boosts expectations for hawkish Fed
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Economic Reality: We Are Not Growing Enough
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OECD indicators: Slowdowns ahead for Japan, U.S.
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Is It 2008 All Over Again?
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Big Companies Pull Back After Rough Quarter
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Fed to raise, but a recession is unlikely: Economist Economists React to January’s Jobs Report: ‘Leaves Open a March Rate Hike by the Fed’
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JP Morgan: US recession risk is growing
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Here's an explanation of the cozy relationship between the Fed and the Treasury
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So this is what 'full employment' looks like?
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U.S. consumer credit rose by $21.3 billion in December
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Why consumers may keep economy from sinking
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The 7 States Doing the Worst Economically
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'Blow out' US job growth won't last: UBS Economist
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Why there are so many recession predictions right now
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U.S. importing a recession? - If so, bankruptcy lawyers sitting pretty, litigation practices could migrate from flat to downward trajectory
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Why a Recession Could Arrive Without a Yield Curve Warning
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America's earnings recession deepens
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Almost everything lost value in January
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Obama: U.S. Has Strongest, Most Durable Economy in World
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These 9 charts tell the definitive story of the US labor market
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Millions of Americans Will Call in Sick the Monday After the Super Bowl
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Most Americans Can’t Guess the Average CEO’s Salary. Can You?
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Lending to emerging markets comes to a halt
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Highs and lows of the American economy, as told through Super Bowl ads
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Despair, addiction, financial struggles and the rise of suicide in white America
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Florida households' burgeoning debt crisis
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Low oil prices as much pain as gain for economy
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Hedge Funds Bet on Risks in U.S. Blue-Chip Debt
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:

Is homeownership worth it? Not in these cities
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MBA: Mortgage credit slightly loosens in January
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HSBC reaches $470 million deal over abuses Justice Department Reaches $470 Million Joint State-Federal Settlement with HSBC to Address Mortgage Loan Origination, Servicing and Foreclosure Abuses
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Counsel's Corner: Dealing with Declines in Default Inventory
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Hedge Fund Manager Kyle Bass is Shorting A Real Estate 'Ponzi Scheme'
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New mortgage companies have ties with subprime lenders
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Wall Street Pulls Back From Mortgage Market That Fed Made Boring
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Municipalities:

Puerto Rico Acknowledges Ceding Control Key to Debt Accord
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Puerto Rico's Restructuring Plan Shows It's Not Serious Yet
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Puerto Rico's 'Fuzzy Math'
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Puerto Rico To Pursue Debt Exchange Even If Allowed to Restructure
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Puerto Rican Officials Warn Congress of Major Defaults Without Restructuring
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Puerto Rico emergency fiscal measures to be exhausted by June
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CPS: “Not even cash-strapped Puerto Rico” Rahm: Rauner bankruptcy rhetoric raised CPS’ borrowing cost Chicago Schools Pay Bigger Bond-Market Penalty Than Puerto Rico You've got to know when to fold 'em, Bruce
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The Man Stopping Illinois From Digging a Deeper Fiscal Hole
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Is bankruptcy next for Detroit Public Schools?
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Fixing both Flint and its water pipes What Nobody Is Talking About in Flint
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Erin Brockovich: This City is the Next Flint
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Detroit's cautionary tale
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Atlantic City could run out of cash Feb. 24, attorney says
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Borgata won't pay taxes until Atlantic City pays $62.5M refunds
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The war in San Bernardino isn't about terror
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GOP governors aim to fix struggling cities
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Judge says Woonsocket cannot modify retirees' health-care benefits
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Glacier County Helps Cash-Strapped Browning
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FBI Arrests Nearly Every Single Elected Official In A Texas Town Facing Bankruptcy
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Jefferson County's Ch. 9 Case to be Argued Before Appellate Court
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The Next Bankruptcy To Hit Your Portfolio
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Politics:

The Vote for Bankruptcy Reform that Haunts Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton says she never changed her vote because of donations. Elizabeth Warren disagrees. That Time Elizabeth Warren Accused Hillary Clinton of Switching Her Vote Because of Campaign Donations Clinton: Sanders 'Grabbing at Straws' W/ Bankruptcy Bill Attack Elizabeth Warren Book Completely Undermines Hillary Clinton
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This botched intro was the most entertaining moment of the GOP debate Fact-checking the Republican New Hampshire presidential debate FactCheck: GOP Debate
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With the pressure on, Robotic Rubio has a breakdown Marco Rubio, Please Call Dan Quayle Chris Christie crushes it by beating up on his stunned rival Marco Rubio defends his 'robotic' moment: 'I would pay them to keep running that clip' Marco Rubio: I would tell rape victim ‘it’s a terrible situation’ but have the rapist’s baby anyway
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Donald Trump: Here's the one area where Bernie Sanders and I agree Donald Trump on New Hampshire: 'I don't think I need it' to win the nomination Donald Trump dismisses audience after getting booed at the debate Trump Again Relies on Star Power Rather Than a Good Ground Game Trump Booed During Exchange With Bush How Donald Trump Explains His Platform Through Profanity Trump Fact Check: "Right now we’re the highest taxed country in the world." Donald Trump really did try to take an elderly widow's house for a limousine parking lot
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Hillary Clinton: Marco Rubio's comments about abortion are 'pretty pathetic' Hillary Clinton's Flint water crisis visit drawing supporters, critics Hillary Clinton Slaps Back at Sanders and Warren: ‘I’m Not Going to Sit and Take it Anymore!’ Clinton Dodges Details Of Speeches That Earned Her Millions Mystery: Hillary's Speeches That Made Millions Clinton Says She's Unsure What Sanders Means by 'Wall Street'
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Both Clinton and Sanders are wrong about money in politics
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Bernie Sanders and Larry David Team Up on Saturday Night Live Saturday Night Live had Bernie Sanders meet Larry David — on board a sinking ship Sanders pushes Clinton to defend Wall Street contributions, speaking fees With Elizabeth Warren by his side, Bernie Sanders could win Why Bernie Sanders Can't Govern Bernie Sanders’ refusal to reveal his economic advisers is an ominous sign
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Carly Fiorina Won’t Go Quietly After Debate Snub
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Cruz is Wrong About CNN's Reporting The Nastiness of Ted Cruz
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Elizabeth Warren Looms Large In 2016 Presidential Race Elizabeth Warren's hard choice in Democrats' White House run Warren blasts Goldman Sachs CEO, defends Sanders How the Fight Over Wall Street Shows the Democratic Divide
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Oil/Gas:

Midstream Contract Acreage Dedications at Risk
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Mon.: Crude oil slips as Saudi, Venezuela meeting yields little
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Fri.: Oil falls in volatile trade as glut concerns face OPEC cut uncertainty
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World's Largest Energy Trader Sees a Decade of Low Oil Prices
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Traders are placing huge bets on the future of oil
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Big oil dividends are no longer untouchable
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Prolonged oil slump sparks second wave of cuts to 2016 budgets
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Three Charts That Examine the Week of Woes for Oil
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Here's How Oil Companies Are Scrambling to Survive the Price Crash As Big Oil shrinks, boards plot different paths out of crisis
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Oil prices may counterintuitively crash further because of oil producers' high debt levels
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Drillers shut down dozens of rigs last week, biggest pull-back since April 2015 U.S. Rig Count In Free Fall: Plunges By 48 In One Week In Spite Of Plunging Rig Count, Oil Erases Earlier Gains
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Oil Output Due to Price Crash is Down Just 0.1%
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Wood Mac: Producers Continue to Run Loss-making Oilfields Despite Huge Losses Oil Companies Reluctant To Shut In Production Loss-making Oil Fields Unlikely To Be Shut Willingly
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Low prices predicted to spur 1980s-style oil tech boom
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Moody's: Oil, Gas Loans Not Likely to Choke Big U.S. Banks
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The Unexpected Bank to Survive the Oil Price Decline
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Gas Prices Are Plunging. So Why Is Everyone Freaking Out?
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Producers keep pumping, even with oil prices falling
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This is the big problem with Obama's $10 per barrel tax on oil Oil tax law? It's not going to happen: Bernstein Here’s how much Obama’s oil tax would add to the price of gasoline Obama: Cheap gasoline prices drove oil tax decision Texas oil producers: Obama's $10-per-barrel tax proposal is a 'death sentence'
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Saudi, Venezuela talk of OPEC, non-OPEC cooperation to stabilize oil market Saudi, Venezuela Oil Ministers Hold 'Successful' Talks on Market
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Why Analysts Are Changing Tune on Exxon, Chevron and ConocoPhillips
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Tullow Oil to pin hopes on West Africa as profits slump
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Diamond Offshore Drilling posts 4Q loss
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Sterling Resources on the brink as creditors call in debts
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Emkey Companies, LLC Files For Bankruptcy in Dallas, Texas
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Linn Energy stock plummets as it weighs potential bankruptcy
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Linn Energy Taps Remaining $919M Under Credit Facility
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Linn Energy : Game Over?
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Chevron Downgraded, First Time Since 1987
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Linn Energy CEO eligible for $6.9 mln award as firm restructures
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Chesapeake Energy : The Next Domino To Fall?
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Pacific E&P Works to Make Bond Payments as Deadline Looms
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BG fourth-quarter profit declines 54 percent
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This is oil's endgame
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Low oil prices may pave way for another int’l crisis: PEW
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Low oil prices can bankrupt developing nations
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Pride And Prejudice And Zombie Oil Companies
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Big Oil Opts for Payouts Over Debt Rating
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Oil Conundrum: It's Even Worse Than We Thought
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Oil prices plunge, North Dakota sees budget deficit
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Oil's latest slump takes a heavy toll on Bakersfield
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Slowdowns in oil , gas industries mean smaller checks for landowners
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Oil's Drop Puts Pressure on Algeria's Government
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$100 Trillion In Value (Of Oil ) Wiped Out
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As Big Oil shrinks, boards plot different paths out of crisis
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Banking:

Credit Suisse brings home the pain Credit Suisse surprises market with large loss
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Small Milwaukee credit union closed by state regulator
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Recent Ch. 11 Filings (42 new filings today)
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Bankruptcy Statistics:

Corporate Bankruptcy Filings Rise Nearly 13% in January January Commercial Bankruptcy Filings Up 12%
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Total Bankruptcy Filings Continue to Decrease
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Wake sees 25% drop in business bankruptcies
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MD PA: Regional bankruptcy filings continue downward trend
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Texas bankruptcies expected to increase 30 percent in 2016
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Bankruptcy filings down in Connecticut
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Bankruptcy Reform:

BAPCPA 10 Years Later: the Effectiveness and Necessity of Bankruptcy Reforms Remain In Question
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Chapter 12 bankruptcy must be amended
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Miscellaneous:

The Week Ahead
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Plan Confirmation:

Can a Debtor Appeal Confirmation of its own Plan? The Eighth Circuit Applies the Person-Aggrieved Doctrine
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Good News for Creditors in Individual Ch. 11 Cases
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Privilege:

Unsettled Question: Another Court Rules That Bankruptcy Client Worksheets Are Privileged
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Re-Filing:

Quick Blurb About Section 109(g)
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Schedules:

Let's Be Careful Out There: The Danger of Omitting Assets
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TBTF:

When The Next Too-Big-To-Fail Bank Fails
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Bank break-ups: here we go again
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Healthcare:

MI hospital to be bought out of bankruptcy
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Prime Healthcare's purchase of bankrupt NJ hospital gets go-ahead
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Go Ye seeks market value on land; bank says it owes $290K
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Autos:

Volkswagen is going to offer generous compensation to 600,000 American car owners
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Volkswagen May Delay Reporting Earnings, Annual Shareholders Meeting By 4-6 Weeks
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Emissions Lies Haunt VW as It Faces Tougher Justice Department
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New Jersey Sues VW Over Emissions
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How General Motors Is Preparing for the Next Recession
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Tesla Struggles As Musk Steers It Off Course The Long Downward Slide of Tesla
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Entertainment:

A Booming Market for Art That Imitates Life After the Financial Crisis
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Mining:

Anglo American investors call for more ‘aggressive’ cuts It's Existential for Anglo American as CEO Faces His Investors
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Anglo CEO Sees No Respite to Mining Gloom Amid Tougher 2016
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Genworth Prepared for Asset Sales as Market Shuns Borrowers
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Noble's Bank Debt Prices Signal Concern That Worst Isn't Over
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Shark-Cage Diving Out, Austerity In for Global Mining Chiefs
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Australia's Iron Ore State Has Rating Cut by Moody's Amid Rout
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Debt Collection:

Is this robocall illegal? The line blurs for people with student debt
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Awards:

Akin Gump Plays Key Role in 2015 Restructuring Deal of the Year arrow
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Results of Q4 2015 Bankruptcy League Tables
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Retailing:

Bankruptcy talk surrounds Sports Authority
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For American Apparel, now out of bankruptcy, it's 'the start of a new day'
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Shoppers pay farewell visits to Joyce Leslie
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Walmart's closures leave gaping voids throughout small-town America
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Religion:

Diocese of Duluth opens books for bankruptcy
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Consultant to review diocese finance records
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Bankrupt woman gets to keep rare first-edition Book of Mormon
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Insurance:

FBI, IRS search former insurance magnate's offices
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Education:

Marco Rubio Asked For ‘Leniency’ Toward College Network That Admitted To Fraud And Contributed to His 2014 PAC
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Arbitration:

Bill Seeks to Limit Use of Arbitration to Avoid Courts
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Sovereigns:

Venezuelan default: Worse than Argentina?
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Argentina in $6.5bn offer to debt holdouts Argentina proposes that holdout creditors accept 25 pct. haircut
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Argentina Bond Battle Drags on as Elliott Spurns Macri's Offer
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Argentina Debt Deal Faces Hurdles Despite Bond Offer
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‘We are now throwing the towel against the ‘vultures’’
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US hopeful Argentina can reach deal with holdout creditors
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Ukraine Bonds Haven't Had It This Bad Since Debt Deal: Chart
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UK:

British bankers are not happy with their massive bonuses because they're paranoid colleagues get more than them
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Company had to expressly agree to foreign court's jurisdiction, rule senior judges
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A quarter of North Sea oil platforms 'could be scrapped in 10 years'
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Fee paid to avoid tax partner's bankruptcy: disallowed
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Bankruptcy adds twist to Duncan Ferguson tale
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One of Apple's UK partners is in full-blown crisis mode and shares are tanking
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EU:

Why European Banks Keep Getting Clobbered Why a selloff in European banks is ominous
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European Distressed Debt Market Outlook 2016
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Europe's Economic Outlook Darkens, Sends Shudder Through Markets
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Italy-Germany Yield Spread Widens by the Most in Seven Months
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European shares hit 16 month low as financials falter
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US firms face tax crackdown in Europe: Report
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PIIGS:

Portugal budget risks 'non-compliance' with European Union rules
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Portugal, private investors agree to share control of TAP airline
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Why pensions are the new flashpoint in Greece's crisis Greeks riot as creditors come calling
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More creditors take on Abengoa
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Spanish liquidation plan grounds for postponing bankruptcy order
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Cheap Cigarettes Are Burning Greece's Finances
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Drumm now decides to come home - but only after running out of road
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Canada:

Financial watchdog closes German unit of Canada's Maple Financial
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Canada Unemployment Rate Rises With Alberta’s Highest Since 1996
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Anxious Stelco pensioners await bankruptcy court ruling
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$200,000 a Year to Nothing
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Germany:

Disposal of pledged stocks by an insolvency administrator
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MENA:

Revealed: why the UAE government is struggling to reform insolvency law
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Rising from the ashes: The UAE's insolvency dilemma
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China:

The rapid pace of China's currency reserve depletion is 'simply unsustainable'
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China's Reserves Plunge While Stresses Mount
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As China’s economy unravels, Beijing’s attempts at damage control are growing increasingly desperate
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Russia:

Russian staycations leave hotspots hard-hit
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Russia VEB's board to talk about aiding bank at end-Feb/early March -FinMin
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Netherlands:

Dutch company in talks to take over bankrupt V&D
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India:

Hole in Delhi takeover pot
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Romania:

Romanian billionaire's companies enter insolvency
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Malaysia:

Saudi minister: Funds to Malaysia PM not ‘donation’
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