September 15, 2015

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Law:

Summer Associates Say Choate Hall, Kaye Scholer Are Tops Summer Associates Survey: 2015 National Rankings Summer Associates Survey: Satisfaction By City
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BakerHostetler officially announces move to single-tier partnership
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NJ: Bankruptcy Attorney Indicted On Theft Charges
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3 Common Mistakes When Pitching New Business Not a Closer? You Can Still Develop Business
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Bankruptcy Lawyer: Navigating Your Quest For Identity
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The Absurdity Of Current Law School Scholarship Offerings
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Three's a Crowd: Third Party Attorney-Client Privilege Waivers
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Law Firm Networks: A Quiet Giant
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Thinking Like A Lawyer: SportsBall
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One Thing You Should Absolutely NOT Put On Your Résumé
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Here's what the 6 major men's dress codes really mean
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5 phrases that will make you look weak at work
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What’s the best way to buy an Apple iPhone 6s?
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Mom Charged After Kids Found Living In Cave
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Professor killed in Delta State University shooting
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OK: Fatal shootings by police eclipse 2014 total Police Violence Claims Piling Up Across the Country
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Macau is getting rocked by reports of a $258 million casino heist
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Dennis Quaid Helps John Oliver Rewrite Miranda Warnings
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Is This The First Use Of The Word ‘Butthurt’ In A Deposition?
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America's Legal Order Begins to Fray
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RJ Reynolds ordered to pay $34.7M to family of Air Force sergeant who died of cancer
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Man Finds Practicing Law (Without A License) Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be
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Kim Davis's First Day Back Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis Says She Won't Stop Deputies on Marriage Licenses The Passion of Kim Davis Kim Davis says she will not issue marriage licenses, but that deputies may issue ‘unauthorized’ ones ABA Ripped Kim Davis Judge And His Law School
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Daily Lawyer Tips
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Judges:

Supreme Court Justice Says He’ll Probably Retire… At Some Point
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Wall Street:

Fed jitters smack U.S. futures lower
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China falls drag stocks back into red
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Layoffs:

Deutsche Bank is about to cut a quarter of its staff in a brutal restructuring 23,000 jobs Deutsche Bank Crunched The Numbers And Decided It Doesn’t Need 23,000 Of You
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Autos:

After Near Bankruptcy And Harsh Downsizing Measures, Delphi Is Getting On The Fast Lane
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Agriculture:

Saudi Arabia squandered its groundwater and agriculture collapsed. California, take note.
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Shipping:

Foreign Shipping Companies Will Test the Limits of Bankruptcy Jurisdiction
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Food/Beverage:

100 Montaditos in Florida to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy by November
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Judge approves A&P retention pay, with added severance payment
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Ultimate Nutrition Settles Dispute With Mr. Olympia Contest
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Weather:

Shocking before-and-after photos of California's mountains
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Northern California wildfire destroys at least 400 homes California wildfires kill one, force 23,000 to flee
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Student Debt:

Student Debt Payback Lags
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Photography:

Goldman Said Agitating Carlyle’s Getty for Debt Swap
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Corporate Reform:

Credit Suisse Said Nearing $80 Million Settlement Over Dark Pool
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More arrests and charges in FIFA corruption probe should be expected, says AG Lynch
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Fraud:

Prosecutors detail case against former Harrisburg mayor
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Tick, tock, Bernie's watches to go on the block
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HBO’s Bernie Madoff Movie ‘The Wizard Of Lies’ Adds Five To Cast
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Former students are calling Donald Trump's business seminars a scam
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Lehman:

The lessons of Lehman, learned and unlearned
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Where are they now? The key figures in the collapse of Lehman
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Banking:

U.S. Century Bank: 3 law firms file suits against bank, 2 settle
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Economy:

Goldman Sachs calls on the Fed to launch into further ‘QE’ Goldman names winners and losers after the Fed hikes rates
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Goldman: Developments that the Fed considers 'have been worse than almost anyone expected'
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Trichet to Fed: Ignore the IMF, World Bank
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Last look at consumer before Fed meets
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The moral case for leaving rates low
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Most Americans Face Retirement Deficit
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The Consensus is No Rate Hike this Week
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Fed rate increase could be followed by a market crash
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Deutsche Bank: We expect the stock market to do 1 of 3 things after the Fed speaks on Thursday
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Americans not getting crushed by foreign-born workers
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6 ways an interest rate hike will affect your money
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The American consumer is worried
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A poverty map where the South looks the best
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These are the hardest places for minimum wage workers to live
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This chart shows how much more Ivy League grads make than you
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Meet Janet Yellen: The most powerful woman in the world
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Treasury Secretary Lew Warns Again On Debt Ceiling Republicans don't want a shutdown — but have no idea how to avoid one
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LA area Port Traffic: Record Inbound Traffic in August
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The U.S. Appears Headed for an Earnings Recession
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:

Bubble, bubble? Number of overvalued markets doubles since first quarter
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Tulsa: Another last-minute bankruptcy filing delays Sinclair Building auction
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Once-convicted lawyer turns tables on feds, seeks $215K for defense fees in $52M mortgage-fraud case
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Municipalities:

Hispanics in Congress Ask Treasury to Prevent 'Catastrophe' in Puerto Rico
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2015’s Most & Least Recession-Recovered Cities
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Oil/Gas:

Oil Patch Braces for Financial Reckoning - Smaller producers are girding for cuts to credit lines, as crude prices show little sign of rebounding
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Survey: Oil field services companies feeling pressure as cuts continue
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IEA: OPEC Will Win the Oil Battle
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North Dakota Oil Rigs Down 65%
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Oil edges up towards $47
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The Shale Delusion: Why The Party’s Over For U.S. Tight Oil
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OPEC says the world will want more of its oil next year OPEC cuts oil production forecast for US OPEC: The US shale boom is over
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Sabine Oil & Gas Bonus Program Approved
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An Economics Argument For Low Oil Prices
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Canada's Oil Output is Rising
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Oilfield theft, vandalism up amid crude downturn: ‘People get laid off. They get mad’
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US Virgin Islands sues oil company over shuttered refinery
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Low Oil Prices Throw North Sea Oil Into A State Of Crisis
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Politics:

Jindal: Trump is nation's ‘leading expert in bankruptcy'
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Price Tag of Bernie Sanders's Proposals: $18 Trillion This old campaign ad from 1971 sheds a lot of light on Bernie Sanders' appeal Why Bernie Sanders's rise is more impressive than Donald Trump's
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Biden Secretly Meets With Top Obama Bundler During New York Swing
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Donald Trump's One-Man Roadshow Donald Trump’s Enduring Lead Shows 2016 Not a 2012 Replay Can Donald Trump Be Stopped? Donald Trump goes hard on immigration at Texas rally ‘Anchor Baby’ Blowback: Most Latinos Don’t Like Trump in Poll Wall Street's latest panic: Trump could win Have you wondered what Donald Trump's Achilles' heel will be?
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Fiorina campaign adopts Trump’s slam
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Donald Trump's new top rival is exploding in New Hampshire Ben Carson also has a history of saying provocative things Ben Carson Fears for the Future of the US
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Mark Cuban says he would ‘crush’ Donald Trump Cuban: I'm just playing around with presidential politics
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Scott Walker is trying to revive his campaign by doubling down on the issue that made him famous
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Poll: Sharp erosion in Clinton support among Democratic women Hillary's Support Falls 21%
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Why this Fed meeting will mean so much for 2016 race
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Currency:

Mt. Gox CEO Embezzled User Funds From Bankrupt Bitcoin Exchange, Officials Charge
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Coal:

Patriot Coal Delays Auction—Again
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Coal's Answer to Decade-Low Prices Is Even Lower Prices
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US coal industry's cost cuts not enough to offset weak prices
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Pensions:

Market Slump Hits Corporate Pensions
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Debt Collection:

Alabama City Said to Shake Down the Poor
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Retailing:

Hawaii's Hilo Hattie shuttering flagship Honolulu store as it works to re-emerge from Ch. 11
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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 (16 new cases today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (7 new filings today)
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Bankruptcy Code - Prior BK Codes - Bankruptcy Rules
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UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database
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Bankruptcy Jobs:

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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)

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Fiduciary Duty:

The Evolution of Fiduciary Duties Under Delaware Law
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Mootness:

The Equitable Mootness Doctrine: Will It Continue to Exist?
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Constitution:

Analyzing the Contracts Clause's Impact on State Law Restructurings
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Bankruptcy Software:

EZ-Filing Discontinuing Support and Updates
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New Hope Software, Inc. Discontinued
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Automatic Stay:

Religious Proceeding Violates Automatic Stay
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Involuntary Bankruptcy:

Dueling venues and the (almost) futility of involuntary bankruptcy
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Healthcare:

Children's and UMC meet for talks
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Report: More kids getting 'drunk' on hand sanitizer... Nearly 400% increase since 2010
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Education:

Bankrupt American Boychoir School starts new year in new home
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Former prep school of Olympians in Lake Placid, New York sells equipment and furniture
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Obama on liberal college students who want to be "coddled": "That’s not the way we learn"
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Gambling:

Developer Blatstein poised to buy Showboat from Stockton
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Caesars Asks to Appeal Bond Ruling Threatening Restructuring
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Resorts:

Baha Mar Liquidators: We Won't Submit To Delaware
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Bahamas 'Can't Lose' Over Baha Mar Outcome
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Sovereigns:

Kicillof: IMF failed at ‘vulture’ reform
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Larry Summers: Why Ukraine’s debt deal is important not just for Ukraine, but also for the West
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UK:

Trustees appointed to former Leeds star's bankruptcy
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Using the “evasion principle” to pierce the corporate veil in UK bankruptcy
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Imran Ahmad will not co-operate with Rangers fraud probe
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Lawyer-Turned-Chef Will Abandon Menus at Top London Restaurant
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U.K. Inflation Returns to Zero
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Insolvency Service ends pursuit of former Comet owners
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EU:

Pope says risk that militants could sneak into Europe with refugees Pope Blames Refugee Crisis on 'God of Money' Europe, facing worst refugee crisis since WWII, adopts bold “do basically nothing” plan
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PIIGS:

Greek ex-finance minister: This is what worries me about debt talks
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Canada:

Crack legal team fronts Essar Steel Algoma's U.S. Steel 'bid'
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Germany:

German economic sentiment slumps in Sept.
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China:

China grabs unused funds to spend on new projects as growth slows
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China's currency could double losses this year - economists
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Chinese stocks slump 3.5%, drag Asia lower
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Carmakers curb China output as sales growth stalls
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Australian:

Former attorney will be new Australian prime minister after Tony Abbott is ousted
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Brazil:

Brazil's Country-Specific Risk Surges To 8-Year High
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Batista Miner Counts on Trafigura Deal to Emerge From Debt Woes
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