Law:
The Bitter Truth: Being a Super Lawyer Doesn’t Help You Get Dates
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Crushing A Law Student’s Dreams of Employment
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The Challenging Value Proposition Of Junior Associates
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Biglaw Pay Discrimination Case Adds A New Plaintiff
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These Law Firms Cleaned Up in the Third Quarter
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Holland & Knight Takes Lead in Cayman Fund's Bankruptcy
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Chief Restructuring Officer: Adding Value
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On Happiness Scale, Partners Rank High
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4 Ways to Reduce the Legal Industry’s Gender Divide
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UK: CMS, Nabarro and Olswang to review 850 jobs for tie-up
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Cooley Comes Up Empty in Two Bankruptcy Cases
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Dementia Dilemma: When Older Partners Pose a Liability
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Suit blames Wells Fargo foreclosure response for bankrupt law firm's financial predicament
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10 Tips For A New General Counsel
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19 Lawyers Discuss The Dumbest Things They've Had To Explain To Clients
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LSAT Is Poor Predictor Of Law School Grades: 6 LSAT Points = 0.1 LGPA
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More law schools are covering bar review costs: Is it improving pass rates?
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Kansas attorney general apologizes for Dred Scott citation in abortion brief
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The 3 essential elements of unshakable confidence
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Christie’s Circle Knew of Bridge Plot, Lawyer Seeks to Show
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Firm employee who stole ‘paper and stationery’ banned from legal profession
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Just Another ‘Lawyer Bites Cop’ Story
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Toddlers Have Shot 50 People so Far This Year
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Judges:
Clinton calls for action on Garland without mentioning his name; Trump hits Ginsburg criticism
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New Litigation Analytics Tool Peeks Under The Robes Of Judicial Data
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Supreme Court: No End To ' Debtor's Prison' In N.H.
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Indictment won’t stop judge candidate accused of donning robes and ruling on cases, lawyer says
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Top NY court upholds removal of village judge who used his office ‘to bully and intimidate’
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Donald Trump Messed With The Wrong Supreme Court Justice
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5 Things Trump, Clinton and Chris Wallace Got Wrong About SCOTUS at Debate • The Great Supreme Court Debate • What was left unsaid about the Supreme Court and the future of your constitutional rights in the last debate • The candidates and the Constitution • Here's Donald Trump's list of potential Supreme Court nominees
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The Supreme Court's Election Day 'Doomsday scenario'
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Man Who Threatened to 'Kill and Eat' Judge's Kids Loses Appeal
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Wall Street:
US stocks set for down day
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Asian markets lower as odds of Fed rate hike increase
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Stocks close lower as telecom, oil pummeled
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Layoffs:
Ex-TransCare Workers Get Class Cert. In Suit Over Layoffs
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NTCL offers workers severance deals. The catch? No badmouthing the company
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FMC Technologies cuts 1,000 jobs, more on the way
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Enbridge cuts 530 jobs
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IAC Iowa City plant to layoff nearly 500 workers
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Bombardier is cutting 7,500 jobs
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Food/Beverage:
Restaurants are facing a challenge they haven’t seen since the recession
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Judge urges deal to save Erie County Farms • Judge gives Erie County Farms 2 weeks for deal
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Creditors Nudge Cosi Bid Higher
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Healthcare:
Surprise Medical Bills Breaking People's Backs
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Shipping:
The US freight index just collapsed at its fastest rate since 2009
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Companies accuse Hanjin of not complying with court order
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Bankrupt South Korean Shipping Giant Hanjin to Lay Off 400 Workers
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Lenders fear Korean Air Lines could catch a cold from Hanjin
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Hanjin Shipping in talks to sell Long Beach Terminal stake
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Fallout of Hyundai Group
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Gambling:
Trump Taj Mahal hints at reopening shut casino
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U.S. watchdog raises concern over Caesars creditor deal • Caesars Entertainment Slips More Than 2% U.S. Watchdog Raises Concerns Over Creditor Deal
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Student Debt:
CFPB Student Loan Ombudsman Issues Fifth Annual Report
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Corporate Reform:
IMF allegedly tried to block its own watchdog from investigating amid internal struggles NYT
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Celebs:
Shaniqua Tompkins Flips On 50 Cent’s Bankruptcy
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Economy:
Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims increase to 260,000
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Fed's Beige Book: "Most Districts indicated a modest or moderate pace of expansion"
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Fed Beige Book: Houston Not Doing Well
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Cutting Corporate Taxes: Does It Work?
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Donald Trump’s super basic mistake about the economy • The manufacturing boom that Donald Trump ignores
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The sharing economy is creating a Dickensian world
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AZ: Most Support a Higher Minimum Wage
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US Debt Clock
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World Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:
Existing Home Sales increased in September to 5.47 million SAAR
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Housing Starts decreased to 1.047 Million Annual Rate in September • Comments on September Housing Starts
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The CEO of one of the largest US homebuilders perfectly summed up the housing market
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A major fallout from the housing crash is now at the lowest level since 2008
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MBA: "Mortgage Applications Slightly Increase in Latest Weekly Survey" • Mortgage rates reach their highest levels in four months
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Detroit's Struggling Housing Market Gets a Boost
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First-time buyers drive increase in existing home sales
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Bank of America doubles down on 3% down mortgages without insurance
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AIA: Architecture Billings Index declines in September
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NMHC: Apartment Market Tightness Index remained negative in October Survey
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CoreLogic: Cash sales hit slightly under 30% in July
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Landlord Must Pay for Disposing of Tenant's Belongings After Ch. 7
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Year-over-Year Change in Residential Home Prices Since 2001
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Municipalities:
Detroit's Bankruptcy : Lessons For Hartford
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Emergency order for Flint water crisis should have come sooner
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Oil/Gas:
Oil Prices Cool Down Amid Tanking U.S. Crude Imports
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Oil’s next stop is $60—here’s why: Technician
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Oil Titans Differ On Whether Prices Will Spike Or Remain Low
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Schlumberger reports profit, no more job cuts
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Politics:
'It was unlike anything we've ever seen and hopefully unlike anything we'll ever see' • Donald Trump: 'I will totally accept' election results 'if I win' • Donald Trump's strongest moment suddenly became his weakest • Trump's War on GOP is Starting to Show • What If Trump Refuses to Concede? • GOP Leaders Silent on Trump, but McCain Speaks Out • Donald Trump, the Anti-Democratic Candidate • 6 Facts About Bush v. Gore Worth Remembering Before The Trump Campaign Revises History To Death • Quite possibly the cruelest thing Trump said at the debate • Trump biographer: There's no difference between the private and public Donald • Trump calls Clinton a 'nasty woman' • About That Constitutional Amendment Trump Randomly Supports Now • Accuser says Trump grabbed her at US Open in 1998 • Accuser: I Blamed Myself for Trumps Grope for Years • Trump's Business Credit Score Is 19 Out of a Possible 100
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Larry Summers Begged Hillary To Stop Pretending That She Hates Wall Street
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Megyn Kelly relentlessly grills DNC chair over allegations she leaked town-hall question to Clinton
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Trump, Clinton go for laughs at fundraising dinner, but one draws boos
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Retailing:
American Apparel Might File for Bankruptcy Again, Land Buyer
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Brand licensors eye debt-stricken American Apparel -sources
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Large Retail Liquidations Likely To Continue
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Mall Investors Set to Lose Billions in Retail Gloom
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Metals:
Thursday hearing could decide fate of Essar mineral leases
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Aviation:
Republic Airways takes huge third-quarter loss
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Banking:
Elizabeth Warren isn't finished with Wells Fargo • Sen. Warren Probes Wells Fargo Board on Stumpf Compensation, New CEO
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Wells Fargo Facing California Investigation
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Wells Fargo: It Was Like Lions Hunting Zebras
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Even the Better Business Bureau has disowned Wells Fargo
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Sales Tactic at Center of Wells Fargo Scandal Is Industry Standard
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Business and Commercial Loan Growth Slows at Regional Banks
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Hedge Funds:
As hedge funds suffer, so do their imitators
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Hedge Fund Managers Struggle to Master Their Miserable New World
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Tech:
Jumio estate's bankruptcy plan wins court approval
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Autos:
Takata's Faulty Air Bag Is Now Linked to 11 Deaths in the US
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Solar:
SunEdison Gets Nod On $150M Sale Of Solar Material Biz
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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 (11 new filings today)
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Bankruptcy Code (html) - Bankruptcy Code (pdf) • Prior BK Codes (pick year from list) - Bankruptcy Rules
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UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database
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Bankruptcy Jobs:
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)
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Cross-Border:
South Korea's STX Offshore Files for U.S. Bankruptcy Protection
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Proofs of Claim:
The Growing Circuit Split on Proofs of Claim for Time-Barred Debt
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Judge rules that Wells Fargo could have forged a bankruptcy document
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IP:
Copyright Infringement Claims Get Reduced in Bankruptcy
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Bad Faith:
Dentist Sued for Malpractice Didn’t File Ch. 7 in Bad Faith
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Mediation:
The “Sporting Theory of Justice” and the Mediation Profession: Roscoe Pound
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Supreme irony as mediators’ event ends in fight
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Bankruptcy Reform:
Auto Credit and the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform: The Impact of Eliminating Cramdowns
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Avoidance Actions:
Fraudulent Transfer: No ‘Safety’ for Lyondell Shareholders
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Structured Dismissal:
Law Professors Disagree on How the Supreme Court Should Decide Jevic on Structured Dismissals
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Prisons:
Private prisons are fighting to survive with big money and pressure on Republicans
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UK:
These are the implications of a 'hard Brexit'
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‘Scottish legal and finance firms displaying high levels of insolvency risk’
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UK lawmakers back stripping Philip Green of knighthood over BHS • 'A billionaire spiv:' MPs vote Sir Philip Green should be stripped of knighthood over BHS collapse • Dominic Chappell calls Sir Philip Green a “bully and nasty individual”
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Lawyers Are Thriving Because of Brexit
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Nortel scheme could avoid PPF after creditor agreement
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EU:
Euro skids to lowest level since March
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PIIGS:
Enterprise bankruptcy legislation changes under way in Greece
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Portugal scraps more austerity but vows budget deficit cut
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Draghi says Athens should focus on reforms, eurozone on debt •Greece needs economic overhaul, not debt relief, German finance minister says • Greek minister: We've done our part. Now it's time to discuss debt relief
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Canada:
Canada's Postmedia reports wider loss, plans more job cuts
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Essar Global accused of billing corporate jet, NYC apartments to Sault steel mill
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Brazil:
Oi CEO says will not sell any Brazil assets for years - paper
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MENA:
‘Saudi civil servants work 1 hour a day, we’re headed for bankruptcy in 3-4 years’ – ministers • How many Saudis are only working one hour a day?
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Saudi deputy minister: kingdom faces bankruptcy in 3-4 years unless economy reforms
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Bahamas:
Baha Mar Finally Has a Buyer, But the Old Owner Isn't Letting Go
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Australia:
The Tidal Wave of Class Actions continues to surge across Australia
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China:
Wenzhou Shipping declared bankrupt by Chinese court
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Goldman Sees China's 'Stealth' Coal Bailout Lasting to 2020
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Here's what China has to do to avoid a financial crisis
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About China's confusing debt-for-equity swaps
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France:
Solocal Set to Restart Stakeholder Talks on Rejected Debt Deal
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