Law:

Orrick Herrington to Cut 100 Lawyers, 200 Staff Worldwide as Economy Slips
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Layoff Watch: The Orrick 300
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Clifford Chance Proposes Cutting as Many as 115 Staff After Lawyer Layoffs
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Layoff Watch: Shearman & Sterling Makes Cuts
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Do Orrick's Latest Layoffs Signal a Second Wave Ahead From Other Firms?
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Blockbusted: Kirkland Reportedly Lands Restructuring Work for Ailing Rental Chain
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Notes from the Breadline: I Have My Freedom, but I Don't Have Much Time (Part I)
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Law Firm Layoffs Alternative: 4-Day Week for Over 100 Attorneys and Staff
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Lessons From the Stanford Scandal: Bring Your Own Lawyer
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Huntsman Paid V&E, Shearman $53 Million
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Setting Marc Dreier's House on Fire
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Hunton Prowls for Litigators; Akin Denies Trouble
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Solo Is the New SoHo
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Layoff Option: Start Your Own Firm
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Second Appeal Denied in $54 Million Lawsuit Over Judge's Pants
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Biglaw Girls Don't Cartwheel, but Biglaw Partners Do Cry
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Big 2008 Lobbying Fees for 12 Am Law 200 Firms
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Law Firms' Web Presence
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McDermott's Change in Coffee Perks Has Some Lawyers Steaming
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Law Firms Take Rivalry To The Hockey Rink
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No Excuses for Technical Incompetence
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Glut of Lawyers in Japan, but No Layoffs
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South Korea to Allow Some Foreign Law Firms to Open Offices From September
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Judges:

New York Bankruptcy Judge Up For Reappointment
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Supreme Court Justices Appear Ready to Set Recusal Rules
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US judge to hear potential conflict in Madoff case
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Post-Gaming the Massey Energy Arguments
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Wall Street:

US Stock-Index Futures Advance
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Stock Futures Point Higher After 5 Days of Selling
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Wall Street shows modest moves a day after tumble
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Obama: Stocks May be Good Investment
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S&P below 700 as banks' future still in question
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Obama: Basing policy on stock market 'fits and starts' could lead to bad policy
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WSJ: As Dow keeps dropping, Obama running out of people to blame
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Greenspan's `Irrational Exuberance' Finally Rings True
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Wall Street's $18.4 Billion Bonus
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GE Falls Below $7 on Concern Finance Unit May Need More Capital
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GE Capital Default Swaps Climb to Record on Capital Concern
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Option Traders Boost Bets That GE Will Sink to $2.50 by June
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Stocks Signal Long Slump
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Autos:

Tough Test Emerges as Administration Aims to Bolster Automakers
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How long before auto bailout costs $100 billion?
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Ford’s February US Auto Sales Declined 48% as Economy Slumped
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GM Says U.S. Sales For February Declined 52.9 Percent
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Auto sales: It's not the bottom yet
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GM falls to No. 3 as Canadian auto sales slump
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As Car Sales Collapse, GM and Chrysler Grow Desperate
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TALF's Terms Bring Little Relief To Struggling Auto Makers
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GM, Chrysler Say Bankruptcy Is Imminent Without More Aid
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GM bondholders to meet Thursday with Obama autos team
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GM says Chrysler deal "continues to be set aside"
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GM Steers Delphi Away From Wall
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Chrysler exec voices confidence company will get U.S. loan
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GM Running on Empty in Europe
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Delphi retirees appeal health benefit cuts
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Grassley: Add bio-strings to autos bailout
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Indiana County Wants Chrysler To Return Millions
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AutoZone 2Q Net Up 8.6% Amid Car-Repair Boom
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Bankruptcy judge throws out Checker Motors' request to eliminate labor pact
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Enterprise Rent-A-Car to buy assets of bankrupt rival
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Auto Bailout: Et Tu, Toyota?
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GM Europe 'could run out of cash'
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GM urges EU states to come to its aid; Carmaker says 300,000 jobs at risk
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BMW Says No Serious 2009 Outlook Possible
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Saab Draws Interest From Rivals, Financial Investors
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Volvo Scraps Manager Bonus Top-Up After Public Outcry
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Australia Auto Sales Fell 21.9% Last Month
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Insurance:

Financial D&O prices up nearly 50%
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D&O Insurance: Knowledge, Structure and Coverage
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Bernanke ‘Angry’ About AIG
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Bernanke Says Insurer AIG Operated Like a Hedge Fund
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Bernanke defends AIG rescue, says U.S. had no choice
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Life Insurers May Get Reply on TARP in Next 2-3 Weeks
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Aviation:

Delta Air, AMR, UAL, Continental Fall as Travel Demand Weakens
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Continental Air’s Revenue Slide May Signal More Cuts
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Southwest Airlines says traffic fell in February
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Next Airline Fee: Buying Tickets?
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Judge Throws Out Sale Of Aloha Name To go!
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Fashion:

Bankruptcy fears stalk Milan Fashion Week
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Politics:

Democratic Revolt May Slow Obama Agenda
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Derivatives:

JPMorgan Derivatives Group Earned $5 Billion in Wall Street's Worst Year
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Harvard Losing AAA Benefit in Bond Market Shows Perils of Derivative Debt
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Debt Collection:

So You’re Dead? That Won’t Stop the Debt Collector
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Sovereigns:

IMF: Poor Nations Need $25 Billion
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Tourism:

River Walk Worries
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Resorts:

New Showdown Looms in Yellowstone Club Bankruptcy
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Economy:

NBCWSJ Poll: 6 in 10 Americans worry government will spend too much
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ADP Says US Companies Reduced Payrolls by 697,000
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US February Job Cuts Rise 158% From Year Ago
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Dollar Rises as Bernanke’s Bank Warning Spurs Demand for Safety
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Pending US Home Resales Slump More Than Forecast
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Obama Releases Billions of Dollars for Public Works to Spur Growth in Jobs
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Obama's plan to hike taxes meets fierce opposition
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Fed chief states deficits are price of growth
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Bernanke’s AIG Blast May Mean More Curbs on Risk, Concentration
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Geithner Warns Over U.S. Deficit
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Fed, Treasury Launch TALF
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Rescue Turns to Toxic Assets
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The Feds' Bailout Black Hole
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Savers could doom the economy
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Six Signs the Recession Is Ending
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Just the numbers, ma'am
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Across business segments, CFOs see the outlook remaining bleak until 2010
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Casualties of the Recession
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Real Estate:

More Than 8.3 Million US Mortgages Underwater as Values Sink
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U.S. MBA’s Mortgage Applications Index Fell 13% Last Week
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US home sales plumb record low in January
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Pending US Home Resales Slump More Than Forecast
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Rethinking the Fan and Fred Takeover
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Banks brace for mortgage remodels under Obama plan
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Obama Rescue Plan Said to Be Limited to Homeowners Most in Need
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Modification Aid Gap Continues Between Prime, Subprime
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Ex-Leaders at Countrywide Start Firm to Buy Bad Loans
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Citi Launches Program To Help Unemployed Mortgage Holders
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Buyers told Lehman bankruptcy court might trump deed restrictions
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Banks Refusing To Take Back Foreclosed Properties
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Toll Brothers 1Q Loss Narrows; Outlook Still Murky
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Bankruptcy filing halts ‘Extreme Makeover’ foreclosure
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Executive Compensation:

Fed Eliminates Compensation Limits for TALF Sponsors
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Motorola co-CEOs Jha, Brown Take No Bonus in 2008
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Banking:

Geithner Says U.S. Financial-System Rescue May Cost More Than $ 700 Billion
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FDIC: Insurance Fund Could Be Insolvent This Year
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A.F.L.-C.I.O. to Support Nationalizing Banks
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Bank of America Charges May Surge as Hedge Funds Mark Mortgages to Market
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Citi Deal Unfair to Retail Investors: Shareholder
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S&P cuts Bank of America's rating one notch to "A"
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Why Ken Lewis Destroyed Bank Of America
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US Bancorp Slashes Dividend 88%, Following JPMorgan's Move
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IndyMac: As Bad As It Gets
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If banks don't like the scrutiny that comes with bailout funds, why don't they just return the money?
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Take This TARP and Shove It
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Midwest bank plans to give government money back
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Bank Of NY, Russia to Discuss Legal Settlement
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Retailing:

Chico's loss deepens, but beats view; shares rise
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Big Lots 4th quarter sales fall; earnings beat estimates
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Ackman's Target Fund Dropped 33% in February, Bringing Total Loss to 93%
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General Growth Said to Get Mall Bids of $400 Million
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Costco Profit Falls on Discounting, Overseas Sales
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Saks's Ability to Tap Real Estate Undermined by Market Drop, Credit Crunch
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Judge approves bonuses for Gottschalks executives
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February Sales Set to Fall for 5th Straight Month
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Store Closings May Send Customers to Survivors
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Gambling:

Station Casinos struggling to survive
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Vegas mogul slams corporate spending backlash; takes swipes at Obama
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Pensions:

Hidden Pension Fiasco May Foment Another $1 Trillion Bailout by Taxpayers
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Layoffs:

Private-sector cut 697,000 jobs in February
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Buffett's Berkshire Will Cut Jobs, Close Facilities After Profit Declines
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Puerto Rico may cut 30,000 government jobs
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Yale University to lay-off up to 300 staff
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Health Care:

Kessler fighting clock to stay open
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Finance:

A $200 Billion Credit-Crunch Buster?
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Televisions:

US Authorities Probe Syntax-Brillian for Missing Millions
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Video Games:

Midway Seeking to Pay Ed Boon's Promised $1 Million Bonus
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DIP Financing:

A Bad DIP? Chesapeake Creditors Sue - Bankrupt paperboard company's unsecured creditors tell the court that the debtor-in-possession motion and bid procedures were stacked against them
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Telecoms:

Handset Sales Fell 5 Percent In Q4
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Celebs:

No ‘California Love’ For Suge Knight
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Religion:

9th Circuit Rules Vatican Can Be Sued Over Abuse
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Music Industry:

All Virgin Megastores in US to Close by Summer
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Private Equity:

Masonite, Set to File for Bankruptcy, Reaches Pact With Lenders
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Buffett on the evils of private equity
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Oil/Gas:

Oil Rise Above $43 as Investors Eye Inventories
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Hallwood Energy to ask to tap cash
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Ausam to wind down in Ch. 7
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