Law:
Altman Weil 2017 Law Firms In Transition Survey Results
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Bankruptcy lawyer sworn in as WI state bar president
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"I have nothing to lose." Ex-Dentons associate accused of trying to extort partners at the firm
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Debevoise & Plimpton Promotes Bankruptcy Lawyer To Counsel
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Years After Legal Troubles, Ex-Big Law Partner Re-Emerges
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Trump and Devos Deliver One-Two Punch on Law School Loans
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From East to West, Big Law Comes Out for Pride
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The Law Firm Supergroup That Outplayed Them All
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This BigLaw firm was named the most prestigious
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Drinker Biddle Says Ex-Atty Fired For 'Mediocre' Work
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Baker Botts given chance to respond in $50 billion Yukos row
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Sedgwick partner settles gender discrimination suit against the firm
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How To Stay Safe In A World Of Law Firm Data Breaches
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Looking to better integrate and retain your lateral hires? Here's 5 tips on how
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Ex-BigLaw atty convicted of insider trading taps Proskauer for post-verdict defense
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Star witness says lavish gifts to Philly DA didn't help him with his most pressing problems
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TV truck stolen while crew worked on crime story
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Police: Unhappy customers beat restaurant owner, daughter over order
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Are States Safer with Right to Carry Laws?
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Woman Left Kids in Car to Die
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4 Million Can Sue Huckabee for Robocalls
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Coffee-seeking 81-year-old leads police on low-speed chase
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Judges:
Augusta native sworn in as newest Bankruptcy Court judge
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Anthony Kennedy retirement watch at a fever pitch • Rumors swirl about Justice Kennedy's potential retirement • This Would Be the Worst Time for Justice Kennedy to Step Down • Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy Retirement Rumors Has Washington on Edge For Next Term • Conway won't confirm Justice Kennedy retirement rumors
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Supreme Court Says It Will Issue Last Opinions of Term Monday
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Ex-tax court judge gets 3 years for tax fraud
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Judge files defamation suit over his portrayal in book
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Wall Street:
U.S. stocks poised for higher open as rising oil prices lift trading mood
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U.S. Stocks in Lull as S&P 500 Little Changed; Energy Advances • Stock indexes inch higher as energy stocks claw from the hole
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The Untold Story of How Gary Cohn Fell for Donald Trump
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Layoffs:
VW Cutting Jobs Faster Than Planned
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Festivals:
After recent high-profile blunders, music festival promoters find bigger isn't always better
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Autos:
US authorities have issued international arrest warrants for 5 former VW execs
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Takata files for bankruptcy , overwhelmed by air bag recalls • Troubled Air-Bag Maker Takata Files for Bankruptcy in Japan and the U.S. • Takata Bankrupt With $10B in Liabilities • Takata's Long Road Through Bankruptcy • Airbag maker Takata files for bankruptcy in Japan and US, seeking $1.6B aid from Key Safety Systems • Takata's woes expected to continue beyond bankruptcy filing • Takata Bankruptcy Would Cloud Auto Industry's Biggest Recall • What Takata's Bankruptcy Means for Airbag Recalls: Quicktake Q&A • Air bag maker Takata bankruptcy expected Monday in Japan, US • Q&A: A look at Takata's bankruptcy and air bag recalls • Timeline-Japan's Takata: From Parachutes to Airbags to Bankruptcy • Shanghai's Joyson Electronic steps in to save bankrupt airbag firm • Key Safety Systems to acquire Takata for $1.59 billion in bankruptcy • Japanese airbag maker Takata files for bankruptcy , finds US buyer • Japan Suffers Record Manufacturing Bankruptcy With Takata • Japan Inc. and the Takata saga • Japan's trade minister: Takata bankruptcy filing was unavoidable • Japan's automakers say it will be difficult to recoup billions spent recalling Takata airbags • Japanese airbag maker Takata files for bankruptcy, gets U.S. sponsor • First Day Dec
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Drivers' bid for Jones Day VW docs is too broad, judge says
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Honda denies knowing Takata air bags were faulty 20 years ago
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Uber, Tesla, Google Struggle to Disrupt Auto Industry
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General Motors Agrees to Settle Hundreds of Ignition Lawsuits
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Subprime Auto Bonds From 2015 May End Up Worst Ever, Fitch Says
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Boating:
Minnesota pontoon manufacturer declares bankruptcy
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Retailing:
Gymboree’s lenders working on comeback strategy for retailer • What Gymboree's Bankruptcy Means for Clothing Retailers
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Store closings have tripled so far this year
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Are All of Sears Vendors Getting Ready to Run? • The creaking and croaking of Sears Canada
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Wal-Mart Said to Steer Clear of Making Rival Bid for Whole Foods • Even with Whole Foods, Amazon would need many more warehouses to reshape grocery delivery
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A Goldmine Of Radio Shack Goodies Is Up For Auction
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Can the Nordstrom Family Afford to Take the Company Private?
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Student Debt:
As student debt rises, fake relief firms prey
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Banking:
A Bank Payout Bonanza Is One Step Closer
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Less Stress in Fed's Bank Test
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Ranking America's 9 Biggest Banks
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Coal:
The World's Largest Coal Mining Company Is Closing 37 Sites
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Mass Torts:
Prosecutors seek 35-year term in deadly meningitis outbreak
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Celebs:
Sports stars who've gone bankrupt
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The biggest celebrity financial losses
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Distressed Investing:
Asia Junk Bond Buyers Accept Weaker Debt Protection
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Fraud:
Shared workspace startup Bar Works is a Ponzi scheme, investors claim
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Former “We Buy Ugly Houses” franchisee admits to running real estate ponzi scheme
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Donald Trump may face new legal action over Trump University
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Economy:
Fed's Mester Argues for Rate Hikes as Bullard Counsels Patience
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Fed’s Long, Strange Inflation Trip Feels Like a 1960s Flashback
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Fed's Williams says gradual rate hikes are needed for growth
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The Fed Needs to Acknowledge Slowing Economy
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What Trump gets right — and not — on trade
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For Consumers, Less Debt but Lots of Bills
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Consumer Non-Debt Financial Obligations as a Share of After-Tax Income, 1980-Present
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Bankruptcy guru Edward Altman sees similarities to 2007 in the credit market today
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The next recession will probably start much like the last one
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The promise and pitfalls of privatizing public assets
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Refugees To US Cut In Half
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The Sun Won't Pay for Trump's Wall, Either
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GOP Push for 20-Year Tax Cut Grows as Ryan Seeks Permanent Fix
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American workers have done all they can do to grow the economy — now it’s the turn of business
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This is why millennials can’t have nice things (or save any money)
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These are the next industries that will go the way of taxis and hotels
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US Debt Clock
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World Debt Clock
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Real Estate:
Developer of Sioux City Building Files for Bankruptcy
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New home sales reverse course, increase in May
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NY 'Billionaires Row' Suffers Biggest Foreclosure In History
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Former home of Anna Nicole Smith hits market for $2.8 million
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Senior home equity hits all-time high in Q1
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Texas hot markets begin to see slowdown
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Municipalities:
After Puerto Rico’s Debt Crisis, Worries Shift to Virgin Islands
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Puerto Rico: a bankruptcy or sovereignty crisis?
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Illinois could be 1st state with 'junk' credit due to budget
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The meltdown in Illinois
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Welcome to Fear City, Illinois: Lessons from the New York financial meltdown
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A risky fix to repair a city's gutted streetlight grid
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AZ: High police and fire pension rates send lawmakers scrambling
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Defiant to depressed: 10% of Flint household owed more than $1,000 in water bills this spring
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Oil/Gas:
Lower oil prices and rising costs squeeze West Texas drillers
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Oil Gains as Biggest Monthly Loss in a Year Considered Excessive
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The Oil Glut Camouflages Some Vicious Black Swans
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Houston still limping out of the oil downturn
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Saudi Arabia's New Heir Leads Revolution of Powerful Millennials
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OPEC Gets Another Supply Headache From Surging Brazilian Exports • OPEC Looks Totally Bewildered by the Oil Market • Where’s the market headed? Don’t look to OPEC for the answer
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Trump's Anti-Nafta Stance Is on a Collision Course With Natural Gas
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Oil Prices To Stay Low If Global Credit Impulse Turns Negative
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Peak Oil Demand and Wasting Trillions
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Oil Goes Bearish - What The Future Holds
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For investors in shale drilling, the party's over
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Media:
Hulk Hogan Lawyer Helms New Suit Against Gawker Successor
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A new Netflix documentary about the Gawker vs. Hulk Hogan trial will change how you see the case
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Politics:
Trumpmania Cools in This Pennsylvania Town
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Trump Now Believes Russia Hacked Election Because He Can Blame Obama • Trump slams Obama administration for its handling of Russia's election meddling • Trump Says Comey’s ‘Story May Have Changed’ After Tape Threat • GOP to Trump: Quit Bagging Mueller • Trump's Denials on Russia Frustrate Allies
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Bernie Sanders and his wife reportedly lawyer up amid FBI probe
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Trump Sued by Watchdog Group Over Auto-Delete Messaging Apps
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FactCheck: Trump's Missions Accomplished
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Senate Panel Probes Alleged Comment by Obama’s Attorney General Lynch
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Some House Democrats Mull Over How to Oust Pelosi as Leader
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Trump calls Obama a copycat for saying health bill is ‘mean’
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New York Times' Full Page of Trump's Lies
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13 Predictions: How Long Can Trump Last
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Kasich: Neither Party Cares About the Poor
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Deutsche Banks Lent Kushner $285 Million
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Paper:
Lincoln files legal objection over cleanup plans for bankrupt mill
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Food/Beverage:
Liquidation auction on tap for Dutch Girl Brewery
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Strack & Van Til bid deadline looms
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The Secret to Restaurants' Woes? Check the Freezer Aisle
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Nuclear:
'Claims traders' play the margins in Westinghouse's bankruptcy case
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SCE&G nuclear project may stay afloat past Monday deadline
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Missing documentation throws Santee Cooper, SCE&G nuclear project timeline, costs in doubt
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Apparel:
Eddie Bauer may be put up for sale
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Resorts:
New plot twist for South Carolina island made famous by Pat Conroy
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Corporate Governance:
How You Know the CEO Is a Goner
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Taxis:
Uber's Happy Days are Still a Long Way Off • Lutz: Uber Was Run as a Big Frat Party • A timeline of Uber's rough year
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Currency:
When the Bitcoin Bubble Bursts
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Maritime:
Choppy waters
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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 (60 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (6 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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Estoppel:
Second Circuit Holds Claims of Fraud Brought Post-Confirmation Were Barred by Judicial Estoppel
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Discharge:
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Ch. 13:
BK ND GA Seeking Ch. 13 trustee
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Healthcare:
Surgical hospital owner, operator files for bankruptcy
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'They're scared': Foreign investors nervous over GV Hospital
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Health Care's Happy Times Have an Expiration Date
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Former Louisiana Heart Hospital to become post-acute care center
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Even if the Senate healthcare bill passes, it's headed straight for a wall • Health Bill provision favors states that didn’t expand Medicaid • Trump Starts to Jawbone Possible Republican Health-Bill Holdouts • Health-Care Bill Puts Senate in Uncharted Waters • Those Moderates Are Screwing Up Health-Care Reform • Koch Group Critical of Senate TrumpCare Bill
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Trump's Previous Promises on Health Care
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Health Insurers Concerned by ‘Dramatic’ Medicaid Cuts in Bill
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Consumer Issues Stemming From the GOP Health Care Initiative
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Bowie Hospital Authority dissolved
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Sovereigns:
From Papua New Guinea to Argentina, Bond Risks Are Going on a World Tour
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UK:
U.K. Stocks Struggling a Year After Brexit Vote • Traders Are Staying Short on the U.K. a Year After Brexit
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ECB Raises Brexit Heat With Bid for Power Over Euro Clearing
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Britain’s Financial Power Is Already Seeping Away
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UK Finds 34 High-rise Apartment Buildings With Unsafe Siding
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£407m debtor Kevin Maxwell faces bankruptcy for a SECOND time
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Co-op Bank no longer for sale as £750m rescue for stricken lender nears completion
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EU:
New rules facilitating cross-border insolvency proceedings enters into force today
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PIIGS:
ECB: 2 troubled Italian banks failing, to face insolvency • PM 'confirms guarantee' for savers as troubled Italian banks face insolvency • ECB confirms two struggling Italian banks will close • Bonds in two rescued Italian banks surge
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Europe's Banking Union Is Dying in Italy
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Italy to Shield Senior Creditors in Liquidating Veneto Banks
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Just €6.25m is recovered in David Drumm bankruptcy
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If Poland Can Fix Tax Fraud, So Can Greece
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Greece struggles to execute public home auctions • Greece Takes Home Foreclosures Online to Avoid Protests
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Greek government praises deal with creditors
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Moody's raises Greece's sovereign bond rating after bailout • Moody's upgrade sends Greek bonds to strongest level since crisis
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Rubbish piles raise health fears in strike-hit Greece
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An IMF bridge to somewhere for Greece?
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Thailand:
Bankruptcy warning for Sino-Thai high-speed rail project
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India:
Insolvency proceedings for stressed accounts may lead to consolidation in the steel sector
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IBBI does quality check on insolvency professionals
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RBI asks banks to keep higher provisions against bankruptcy court cases: report
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Insolvency: Eight Down, Fate Of Four Hangs In Balance
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The clean-up begins: On RBI's move against 12 borrowers
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India's Bankruptcy Law Starts To Bite - Bushan Power And Steel
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Amtek Auto’s Managing Director Resigns As Insolvency Looms • Debt ridden Amtek re-appoints former MD John Flintham as president
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What to do with defaulting firms’ shares?
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180 days too long to resolve insolvency cases: Bankruptcy board chief Sahoo
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Still on a learning curve with bankruptcy: S M Sahoo
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81 companies want to be declared bankrupt
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Will Bankruptcy Law Drive Sick Indian Industries to Overseas Hands ?
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MENA:
Qatar's Neighbors Issue Steep List of Demands to End Crisis • Qatar Seen Rejecting List of Severe Demands to End Gulf Crisis • Saudi Demands of Qatar Test for Tillerson’s Gulf Strategy • Qatar: Arab Demands Not Realistic
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Qatar Airways Has No Trump Card
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Dubai’s Judicial Tribunal issues new judgments, complicating dispute resolution
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Declaring Bankruptcy in Oman: What to Expect
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Australia:
Ten prepares to face its creditors • Creditors meet on Ten Network's future • Ten's billionaires step in with more funding, while ordinary shareholders left with 'no value' • Ten 'has cash to continue': administrator
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Booming household debt has a sting in the tail • Wage Woes May Leave Australians Struggling to Make Ends Meet
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China:
Xi Jinping's war on the 'financial crocodiles' gathers pace
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Brazil:
Brazil's Oi unveils plan to repay small creditors
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Mozambique:
Mozambique Debt Probe Sees $500 Million in Unexplained Loans
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