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JPMorgan Chase & Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and the world’s largest banks won rollbacks in final Dodd-Frank Act rules that promise to transform the private swaps market by increasing competition, Bloomberg News reported yesterday. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission voted 4-1 yesterday on rules determining how buyers and sellers must trade credit-default, interest-rate and commodity swaps in a $633 trillion global market. The rule weakened a proposal by...
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Moody's Investors Service said yesterday that Detroit's bondholders face a heightened chance of...
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Alabama's bankrupt Jefferson County yesterday hired a new top in-house attorney as officials put...
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A study of cancer patients in Washington State has found they were twice as likely to file for...
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An effort by creditors to force defunct investment vehicle TPG Troy into bankruptcy has fallen flat...
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Patriot Coal Corp. can pay $6.9 million in bonuses to key employees, a judge said, rejecting union...
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A decades-old whistleblower lawsuit that prompted Congress to change the law that is intended to...
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Holders of almost $240 million of municipal debt issued to finance parking garages at the new...
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The U.S. legal system is the world’s most costly, according to a study released this week by the U....
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