March 31, 2015

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Law:

After Dewey Collapse, Former Partners Still Search for Homes
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Associate Bonus Watch: Coveting Your Neighbor’s Bonus
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5 Things GCs Want From Outside Counsel
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Cox Smith Matthews to combine operations with Detroit law firm, managing director/bankruptcy head Deborah Williamson to join Dykema executive board Texas' Cox Smith law firm merging with Dykema of Detroit Mid-Market Mergers Abound: Dykema Ties Up With Texas Firm
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Business of Law
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Dechert CIO Shares Thoughts on Keeping the Law Firm Safe
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Law firm faces copyright claim after press obtains secret video made by a client’s co-worker
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Does your legal LinkedIn profile have off-base endorsements? Ethics opinion has a problem with that
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A Call For Measuring Quality in Legal Services
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Want To Work In-House At Apple? Go To These Law Schools
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The question Indiana's Pence won't, or can't, answer Indiana Lawmakers Move to Clarify Religious-Objections Law What Makes Indiana's Religious-Freedom Law Different? How major celebrities and businesses are reacting to Indiana’s religious freedom law Indiana’s New Law Allows Discrimination. That Was the Point. Indiana Republicans to amend 'religious freedom' law in face of backlash How Angie’s List got involved in the Indiana religious freedom law The high cost of religious freedom laws People Are Mad At Indiana For Discrimination Authorized By Hobby Lobby
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Indiana GOP leader admits ‘No Gays Allowed’ sign would be legal in most of the state
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Meet Paul Deck, the oldest practicing lawyer in Nebraska and Iowa
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Crazy Law Firm Vid Or Action Movie Trailer? You Decide.
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Amanda Knox will seek compensation for time spent in Italian prison, lawyer says
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Public defender’s text to phone in police possession leads to suspension
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Lawyer’s ‘sugar daddy’ offer to unrepresented opposing party is cited in disbarment decision
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Demanding S-- For Legal Services Frowned Upon In Indiana
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Cops: "Obsessed" Teacher Sent Thousands of Texts to 11-Year-Old Student
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SCOTUS: GPS Trackers are a Form of Search and Seizure
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Judges:

Bankruptcy judge playing retirement tune
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Wall Street:

US Stock Futures Slide Ahead Of Economic Data
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European Markets Fall Amid Greek Worries
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Company earnings warnings have been piling up of late
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Layoffs:

Losing a job is always terrible. For workers over 50, it’s worse.
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Oil/Gas:

Tues. A.M.: Crude oil is falling again
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Oil Declines as Potential Iran Nuclear Deal Seen Boosting Glut
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Report: Cheap crude prices could boost the U.S. economy for another two years
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Danger lurks for debt investors in the oil and gas fields
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With So Much Oil Flowing, U.S. May Be Reaching Storage Limits No, the US is not running out of places to hoard its oil
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Fort Worth O&G Company Opts for Bankruptcy
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Energy Payrolls Have Only Started to Fall
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Why oil falling below $30 a barrel is a good thing
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U.S. oil production jump hit 100-year high in 2014, report says
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Will the Oil Rout Bankrupt Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp.?
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Pipe manufacturer to cut more Houston jobs
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Harvest Natural Resources weighs restructuring with "severe" money woes
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A Houston oil company’s foiled Venezuelan sale is prompting reorganization talk
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Connacher Oil and Gas Ltd debt-for-equity swap gets okay
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Energy high-yield bonds: cutting the line
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Commodity Investors Bailing at Fastest Pace on Record
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Aviation:

Germanwings Co-Pilot Andreas Lubitz Had Been in Treatment for Suicide Risk
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Payouts for US Germanwings victims could dwarf European claims
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Flooring:

Carl Icahn might want to get involved in the Lumber Liquidators fight but 'needs to figure out who he hates less'
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Education:

Over 100 people refusing to pay off loans for defunct Corinthian Colleges
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Gambling:

Stockton reportedly knew Showboat covenant was still an issue at purchase
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Awards:

Christopher Andrew Jarvinen Elected to the International Insolvency Institute
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Finance:

Jumping on junk: Investors crazy for high yield bonds
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Weather:

Drought puts screws on California's swimming pools
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Religion:

Difference of $600K and $5 million: Supreme Court won't hear Rev. Robert Schuller's appeal
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Economy:

US Consumer Spending Up 0.1% in February
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More than one-third of America holds no emergency savings
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Survey: Nearly Half of Consumers Are Saving Enough of Their Incomes
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Why are interest rates so low?
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New data show US economy stalled in first quarter Economists breaking out the bubbly for 2015?
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The Fed’s ‘repression’ has cost savers $470 billion: Swiss Re
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St. Louis Fed: How Long Until “Slack” Is Out of the Labor Market?
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Low consumer spending points to slow first quarter
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Texas is in trouble
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The 100 Most Trustworthy Companies In America
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Bernanke: I didn’t throw seniors under the bus
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Three charts that could give Fed reason to not lift rates
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Just how big is government, anyway? Really, really, really big.
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:

February's Pending Home Sales Hit Highest Level Since June 2013, Says NAR
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The US housing market comeback is far from over
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If We Repossessed Empty Homes, Homelessness Would Be Over
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Banks push back on foreclosure limitations
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LIHTC exit strategies: Right-sizing the loan
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The Impact of State Foreclosure and Bankruptcy Laws on Higher-Risk Lending: Evidence from FHA and Subprime Mortgage Originations
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Supreme Court revives ING mortgage bond lawsuit
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Bankrupt developer Sean Dunne is STILL building luxury projects
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3 things you need to understand mortgage default rates
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Municipalities:

Atlantic City Requests 60-Day Extension of New Jersey Loan Atlantic City gets extension of state loan due Tuesday
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Panel weighing pay bump for Detroit's elected leaders Commission approves 2.5 percent pay hike for Detroit City Council
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Is this going to be Detroit's salvation?
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Mass Tax Foreclosure Threatens Detroit Homeowners
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The Next Foundation Challenge in Detroit: A Bankrupt Public Education System Report: State should remove DPS from EM control
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It's Crunch Time for Puerto Rico Creditors grant Puerto Rico utility 15-day payment relief
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Scranton: Pension disputes threaten goodwill between city and unions
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How Chicago has used financial engineering to paper over its massive budget gap
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A Small Town Pushed to the Brink, and Coming Back
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Fastest-growing cities
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Fraud:

U.S. justices rebuff lawsuit against banks over Madoff Ponzi scheme
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'Diva of Distressed' Tilton Accused of Defrauding Investors Nearly $200 Million Fraud Valuations masked Lynn Tilton’s true returns: SEC
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Stanford receiver's case against Ben Barnes delayed
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Stalking Jon Corzine
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Consumer Finance:

CFPB unveils first draft of new rules for safety of payday loan consumers
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Mass Torts:

Insurer asks for relief in Pittsburgh Corning bankruptcy, cites evidence against asbestos lawyers
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BP says paying a fraction of oil spill bill could put its U.S. unit in trouble
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Retailing:

RadioShack Judge Extends Hearing With 7,000 Jobs at Stake
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Salus Capital Claims Shenanigans In RadioShack Bankruptcy Auction Salus Capital says it won't up its bid for RadioShack
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Bankruptcy judge says lender dispute could block sale of RadioShack stores
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Could Standard General close on its RadioShack deal? Bankruptcy judge apparently doubts it Bankruptcy judge casts doubt on Standard General's RadioShack deal
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Kanye West Seeks to Buy Streetwear Retailer Karmaloop
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Shuttered Alco stores up for rent or sale in the Eagle Ford Shale
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Bankruptcy bracketology and how SkyMall only sold for $1.9M
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Telecoms:

Harbinger Investor Suit Over Lightsquared Dismissed by Judge
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Investigations:

Bankrupt Security Firm Tapped Former Joint Chiefs Chairman
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Pensions:

Boomerangs and the PBGC, or When a Sale is Not a Sale
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Politics:

What liberals could learn from Ted Cruz’s flat tax
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Liz Warren steals moment in Kennedy Institute spotlight
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Personal Finance:

5 questions you should never ask in a job interview
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Celebs:

'Real Housewives Of New Jersey' Star With 47 License Suspensions Catches Another Break
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Prisons:

R.I. judge OKs Wyatt deal that puts off most bond payments
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Coal:

Appalachia Miners Wiped Out by Coal Glut They Can’t Reverse
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(4 new opinions today - DBN)

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 (144 new filings today)
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Bankruptcy Code - Prior BK Codes - Bankruptcy Rules
(large downloads)

UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database
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Bankruptcy Jobs:

(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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Plan Confirmation:

Argument preview: Justices to use consumer bankruptcy case to resolve crucial question of reorganization process
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Involuntary Bankruptcy:

Involuntary Bankruptcy Petitions: A Powerful Weapon, But Beware of the Downside Risks
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Lien Stripping:

Supreme Court Takes Second Look at Second Liens
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SCOTUS:

Argument preview: Court to take on undistributed funds and bankruptcy conversion
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Secured Debt:

Lender Beware: The Pitfalls of Narrowly Defined Secured Obligations
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Avoidance Actions:

Reforming Preference Law
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Newspapers:

The Slow Death of the American Newspaper
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Cablevision wants to buy the New York Daily News for $1
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Banking:

The only new bank to open in the U.S. since 2010, when the Dodd-Frank law was passed
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Student Debt:

22 states where you could lose your license for not paying your student loans
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More Refuse to Repay Student Loans
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Video Games:

38 Studios auction takes in $90,000
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Corporate Reform:

Regulators Intensify Scrutiny of Bank Boards
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Healthcare:

Provider Preparedness in the Wake of CoOportunity Health's Liquidation
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Dotcoms:

HomeGrocer.com: Anatomy of a Failure
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Sovereigns:

Argentina in last-ditch manoeuvre to pay bondholders
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Clearstream will not process some Argentina coupon
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Cristina Fernández holds out for victory in debt battle
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Showdown betw. Paul Singer and de Kirchner’s Govt May Sink Argentina
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Lenders to Ukraine await sovereign debt restructuring
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UK:

The COMIngs and goings of COMI
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Slater & Gordon makes $947M offer to acquire major UK personal injury law firm
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City Link owner lashes out at MPs over “unfair” assertions
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Stockport firm collapses after GB Building Solutions insolvency
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EU:

Merkel urges Germans: Give Greece a chance Merkel faces euro rebellion as senior official resigns
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PIIGS:

Crunch time: Greece risks rising once again Germany says Greece must flesh out reforms to unlock aid Greece needs an economic defibrillator and a debt write-off Five ways the Grexit could happen
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Greek Exit Would be `Painful' to Euro Region, Humes Says
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Greek reform deal 'unlikely before Easter' Greece says remains intent on reaching deal with lenders
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Canada:

Court to hear sale plan for Hamilton US Steel plants in Hamilton
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Future Shop latest Canadian retail casualty to succumb
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No help for Everest students
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We Can Bankrupt the Company for Sure, It’s Insolvent – Think Again
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China:

For the first time the Chinese government has admitted that things aren't going so well
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Beijing, U.S. baffled by China’s ‘new normal’
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Ukraine:

Ukraine's Russian Problem, Part 2
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Why Russia suddenly wants to supply cheap gas to Ukraine
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Ukraine to start large-scale privatisation
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Brazil:

Brazil bank's bonds crushed by bad loan provision in 50 percent wipeout
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Cyprus:

MPs end talk on fifth insolvency bill
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Romania:

Insolvencies down by more than half in Romania
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