Law:
Bankruptcy Watchdogs at U.S. Trustee Office Leashed by Shutdown
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Bankruptcy Cases Move Forward, With or Without Government Watchdog Oversight
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Law Firms Announced Record-Breaking 106 Mergers Last Year
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Squire Patton Boggs Starts New Year With Double Bankruptcy Partner Hire
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Burr & Forman Names 3 Bankruptcy Partners
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Schulte Roth & Zabel Announces Promotions
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Proskauer Bolsters Restructuring Capabilities With Addition of Partner Elisabeth Baltay
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'Dark Overlord' Hack Shows Mounting Cyber Risks for Law Firms
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Munger Tolles Did It. Why Can't You?
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Is UnitedLex the Future?
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5 Tips to Take Your Persuasive Power Up a Notch
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Federal Clerk Attacks His Law School For Celebrating Pro Bono Work
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Attorney in Yankee cap arrested in series of violent NYC attacks on women
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Doc Review Attorney Demands To Be Seen In Biglaw Departure Email
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Judge Penalizes Lawyers For Not Using Artificial Intelligence
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Trump Appointed Judge Defends Mueller • Fox News legal analyst shoots down Giuliani’s demand to see Mueller’s findings before they go public • ‘Knock it off’: Judge delivers scathing rebuke of ‘unprofessional’ lawyer for Mueller-indicted Russian firm • When Mueller Issues a Report, Trump May Try to Suppress Some of It
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Court ruling could foreshadow new Twitter rules for Trump • Federal appeals court holds blocking access to politician's social media violates First Amendment
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Harassment Cases Surged Last Year in Wake of #MeToo: Seyfarth Report • Not guilty plea entered on Kevin Spacey's behalf • Kevin Spacey Pulled Over for Speeding ... On Way Home from Court
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Danske Bank Named 'Corrupt Actor of the Year' by Crime Reporting Group
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No, 3,755 suspected terrorists did not try to cross the border • Report suggests White House exaggerating numbers on terror watch list border crossers • Only 6 on US Watch List Stopped at Border
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What the President Could Do If He Declares a State of Emergency
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Former UT Law School Student Gun Nut Indicted On Multiple Counts Of Assault
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Uber driver admits murdering 6 between fares
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4 cops in ‘love rectangle’ stripped of guns so they wouldn’t kill each other
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How to Brew Better Coffee at the Office
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AI tool used to catch people who lie to police
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Lawyer in Viral Rant Video Faces Suit From Record Label Client
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2018: America's Most Dangerous States
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Judges:
Federal Judiciary Says 'Limited Funds' Will Expire Jan. 18 • Judiciary Operating on Limited Funds During Shutdown • What happens after federal courts run out of money? Lifeline gets week extension
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg not on bench for Court's first day of arguments in 2019 • Ginsburg, Recovering from Cancer Surgery, Will Miss Arguments for First Time • Ginsburg Will Miss Arguments for First Time on Supreme Court
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Attention RBG Fans: Banana Republic Is Re-Issuing Its Original Dissent Collar
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The justices return, without Ginsburg or any new grants
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The Red Hot Fashion Trend Inspired By Sonia Sotomayor
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Justices Would Get Ethics Code Under New Democrat Bill
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A Concrete Proposal For Improving Diversity In Law Clerk Hiring
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Wall Street:
Dow set to jump 200 points amid US-China trade talks • U.S. stock futures higher as trade optimism set to keep gains going on Wall Street
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US Market Indexes Close With Gains for a Second Day
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Majority of Wall Street pros see a stock market comeback led by tech in 2019: CNBC survey
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Investors flee stock and bond funds in record numbers amid equity panic in December
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Layoffs:
Palmetto Health eliminates 140 positions
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Figi's announces closures, 276 layoffs
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Union Pacific announces 475 workforce layoffs
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Coal:
More coal-fired power plants have closed under Trump than in Obama's first term • Coal mines closing despite Trump's promises
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11th Circuit Says Coal Company Can Break Promise to Pay Retired Miners' Benefits
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Tech:
Tim Cook has a really big iPhone problem • Apple hasn’t been this unloved by Wall Street since 2005
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Samsung Electronics : Echoes Apple's Gloomy Outlook as Tech Woes Get Worse • Samsung Q4 guidance shocks: profit 18% less than the market expected
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After Samsung’s guidance miss, South Korea’s LG warns quarterly profit likely fell 80 percent
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It's Not Just Apple That's Hurting
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Religion:
Pope Francis warns of resurgent nationalism, urges help for migrants
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Opus Dei paid out almost $1M to settle suit against celeb priest
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Marijuana:
State Marijuana Laws vs. Bankruptcy: The Tension Grows
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Climate:
2018 was Earth's fourth-warmest year, EU scientists find
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Supreme Court sides against Exxon in climate case
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Food/Beverage:
Jamie Oliver says financial crisis that saw restaurants go bust was the 'worst time of his life'
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Pharma:
Why drug prices keep rising
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Economy:
Trump firing Fed Chairman Jerome Powell would send shockwaves through the markets
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Fed’s Bostic now sees only one interest-rate hike this year
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Trump nominee to Federal Reserve withdraws nomination
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Year-over-Year Change in Employment Since 1968
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Small-business sentiment declines to 14-month low in December
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Government shutdown becomes the third-longest ever. Here’s where things stand • Shutdown Day 17: White House, Dems disagree on definition of ‘negotiating’ • Some freshmen say no paycheck during shutdown, but most lawmakers get paid • Air travelers start to feel effects of government shutdown • Trump Has Four Days Before Many Federal Workers Start Missing Paychecks • Trump's new urgency on solving the shutdown • Do this right now if you’re a federal employee not getting paid • House GOP Thinks Shutdown Support Eroding • Analysis: Trump’s unpredictable negotiating style faces test • Trump is Grinding the System to a Halt • What’s open — and closed — during a partial government shutdown • Here’s what happens to the economy if food stamps are halted for a year due to the shutdown • The government shutdown has this Atlanta family in limbo • Furloughed worker: Ironic Congress gets paid • After boxing himself in, Trump escalates shutdown crisis • The economic injustice behind the TSA 'blue flu' • The Suicide of a Great Democracy • 3 Democratic senators want to block all Senate bills until Mitch McConnell takes up a bill to reopen the government • Trump to travel to the U.S.-Mexico border to make his case for a wall as the shutdown drags on • Trump will address the nation before visiting the southern border amid shutdown • Democrats Want Air Time for Wall Rebuttal • White House: IRS will pay tax refunds amid shutdown • White House promises tax refunds will go out, but there’s hardly anyone at the IRS to do the work • Trump Wants to Deliver Prime-Time Address on Government Shutdown • Trump was never a great dealmaker. The shutdown proves it • Trump shutdown hits science with stalled research, missed conferences • Immigration case backlog keeps growing as shutdown drags on • The Shutdown Just Took an Amazing Turn
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What's Going on in US-China Negotiations • Call between Trump, Trudeau yields no movement on steel tariffs
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10 Biggest Risks to Global Stability in 2019
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Study: So the Gig Economy Stories Were Mostly Hype
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America's Prime Working Age Problem
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Summers Rejects Negative Interest Rate Plans
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Is America’s future capitalist or socialist?
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The World Bank’s controversial president just resigned • World Bank president resigns, possibly setting up a fight between Trump and U.S. critics
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The Top 20% of Households Pay 88% of Federal Income Taxes
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Dems Eye 33% Corporate Rate Hike
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Seattle City Council Members Deliver Cautionary Message About Amazon HQ2
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Half of investment-grade bonds are only one step away from junk status
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Brace yourself: This is the only job in America that pays six figures and has low levels of stress
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Leading economist says high public debt ‘might not be so bad’
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US Debt Clock
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World Debt Clock
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How People Really Live
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Real Estate:
More Americans think it's a bad time to buy a home
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Municipalities:
PROMESA and McKinsey’s Lack of Disinterestedness
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Chicago Seized And Sold Nearly 50,000 Cars Over Tickets Since 2011, Sticking Owners With Debt
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Federal appeals court denies Flint's immunity in water crisis lawsuit
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Oil/Gas:
Bankrupt San Antonio oil company could be sold to largest creditor
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Oil prices charge higher as market eyes trade-talk progress, supply cuts
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Oil on the verge of logging longest streak of gains in about 18 months
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E&P Bottom Of The Barrel Club Q4 Review: You Picked A Fine Time To Beat Me, Lucille
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Politics:
The greatest trick Donald Trump ever pulled
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FactCheck: Ex-Presidents Wanted a Wall
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The Truth About Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: How, in just one year, a 29-year-old bartender became a lawmaker who triggers both parties • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is floating a 70 percent top tax rate — research backs her up • Former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan thinks the Ocasio-Cortez 70% tax plan is ‘a terrible idea’ • Mark Cuban has some advice for Ocasio-Cortez after she spars with the GOP’s Scalise over ‘leftist fantasy programs’ • What Ocasio-Cortez’s '60 Minutes' Interview Actually Reveals • The conservative response to Ocasio-Cortez’s tax proposal has been embarrassingly deceptive • Ocasio-Cortez's Problem with Facts
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Trump can’t decide if the US has defeated ISIS • With withdrawal walk back, Bolton scrambles Trump's Syria policy • Trump says U.S. will leave Syria "at a proper pace" • Turkey’s Erdogan shuts down White House’s Bolton on Syria, says he made a ‘serious mistake’
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Elizabeth Warren already owns two huge policy issues that could shape the 2020 presidential race
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Mattis, Kelly Had Little Influence on Trump
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Trump Considers Major Civil Rights Rollback
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Freshly inaugurated California governor Gavin Newsom calls Trump White House corrupt and incompetent
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Back on track: AG can resume civil lawsuit against Eyman
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Electricity:
PG&E shares and bonds plunge on bankruptcy worries • PG&E Sinks as Wall Street Weighs ‘Posturing’ Around Bankruptcy • PG&E shares are hammered as potential liabilities mount
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PG&E's Fate May Include Bankruptcy, Bailout or Takeover
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S&P cuts PG&E ratings to junk, warns of further downgrade
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Utility under pressure as insurers sue for starting California wildfire
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PG&E Dives as Utility Giant Plays Dangerous Game With State
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PG&E Bankruptcy Risk Gets Real — But What Comes After? • A PG&E Bankruptcy Would Leave Power Giant in Turmoil for Years • What would happen if PG&E sold its gas business or filed for bankruptcy?
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PG&E could move headquarters out of San Francisco
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Travel:
Passengers grounded with dead body for 2 HOURS after passenger dies on board
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Aviation:
Inside America’s Most Unusual Airline
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Sports Facilities:
Out of bankruptcy, LakePoint strategizes for 2019
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Radio:
Bankruptcy Judge Approves iHeart Plan
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Fraud:
Maryland couple to pay $4M fine for Ponzi scheme promotion
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Entertainment:
Lantern Says It's Not Responsible for Weinstein Co. Debts to Hollywood Stars
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Travel:
Should you tip your flight attendant? It all depends on the airline • Your flight attendant is now accepting tips: Frontier Airlines pioneers new rules for gratuities
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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 (13 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (9 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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Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Case Studies
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Bankruptcy Jobs:
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Weekly Bankruptcy Claims Trading Activity
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Low Bankruptcy Filings for Credit Cards: Calm Before the Storm?
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D&O:
The Top Ten D&O Stories of 2018
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Cross-Border:
Due Process in Chapter 15: Industry-Dependent, Jurisdiction-Dependent, or Both?
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TBTF:
First Wave FBOs Receive Feedback Significant Progress, Next Steps Identified
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Litigation:
How You Pick A Jury Can Make (Or Break) Your Case
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Healthcare:
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital is under fire after surprising some patients with giant medical bills • A $20,243 bike crash: Zuckerberg hospital’s aggressive tactics leave insured patients with big bills
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Student Debt:
New York reaches deal with student-loan company long accused of misleading borrowers
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Flipping the Economics of Paying for Education, Because They’re Upside Down
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Newspapers:
Dallas Morning News lays off 43 as company struggles with revenue declines
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Autos:
Reagor-Dykes files reorganization plan
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In first appearance since his arrest, Nissan’s Ghosn protests innocence • Nissan: Renault Alliance Not in Danger
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Retailing:
Edward Lampert Scrambles to Keep Sears Alive • Sears to ask bankruptcy judge to liquidate - sources • A Sears liquidation could create some winners and over 100,000 losers • Sears braces for liquidation: Here's what could happen • Sears Holdings reportedly preps for liquidation • Eddie Lampert May Have Kept Himself From Winning Sears Bid • Sears hires liquidator as fail-safe for takeover negotiations • Sears prepares for liquidation after Lambert's bankruptcy bid rejected • Threat of liquidation grows for Sears as uncertainty lingers over Eddie Lampert's offer • It’s lights out for Sears on Tuesday unless Eddie Lampert can sweeten his bid
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Lands' End closing boutiques in Sears
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'We Are Down, but Not Out': Sears Gets Feisty on Social Media
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Warren Buffett finds value in Sears wreckage
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Amazon stock surges to surpass Microsoft as most valuable U.S. company
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10 Predictions For Retail In 2019
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Toys R Us Is Going Strong In Asia
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Pharmaceutical supplier owed $67 million says Shopko to file for bankruptcy Jan. 15
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Beauty Brands files for bankruptcy, plans to sell assets • New Delaware Chapter 11 Filing – Beauty Brands, LLC • Beauty Brands declares bankruptcy weeks after shuttering stores
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Anchors Away: Why Sears, Macy's, JCPenney And More Are Emptying Regional Malls
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Personal Finance:
What self-made multimillionaires have in common
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How to handle your holiday debt
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Income volatility and heart attacks may go hand-in-hand
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UK:
From Carillion to Connaught, here are four clues that a company is tipped for disaster
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Retail insolvency: consumer protection, pre-payments and changes to the Sale of Goods Act
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$1 trillion is leaving Britain because of Brexit • London’s Brexit bill: £800bn and counting, says EY
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U.K. government quashes reports of delay to E.U. exit
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Here are 4 ways Brexit could play out, in 1 chart
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EU Promises UK Free Trade Deal by 2022
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UK New Car Sales Plummet
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Canada:
More Albertans file for bankruptcy as oil-and-gas sector struggles, expert says
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MENA:
Turkey sees decline in firms asking for protection from creditors
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Saudi Arabia women to receive notification of divorce by text message
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Malaysia:
China Offered to Bail Out Malaysia's 1MDB Fund
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Venezuela:
Venezuela's PDVSA in oil deal with firm part-owned by Florida Republican
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Venezuela Supreme Court justice flees to US in protest
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China:
China’s current GDP growth is likely less than 6 percent, economist says
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Chinese bond yields hit two-year low
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Germany:
German industrial production unexpectedly slumps
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India:
Banks ask Jet Airways to explain its liquidity situation
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