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MF Global: Regulators Pushed Us Off Cliff
In a bankruptcy court filing Monday, "MF Global said regulators were 'dissatisfied' with a September securities filing by the company where it disclosed new capital requirements for its European bet," according to The Wall Street Journal.
Updated: 11/03/2011 07:03A
Women account for up to 50 per cent of bankruptcies
as marriage breakdown or ill health,' says Una Farrell, from the Consumer Credit Councelling Service. 'Now household budget pressures such as inflation, welfare benefit changes, wage freezes and reduced working hours are pushing them into bankruptcy.'
Updated: 11/03/2011 06:58A
Syms stores in Cherry Hill, Berwyn to close | Philadelphia Inquirer | 2011-11-03
Discount retailer Syms Corp. and its subsidiary Filene's Basement have filed for bankruptcy protection and plan to close all 46 of their stores, including Syms outlets in Cherry Hill and Berwyn. Syms acquired Filene's Basement out of bankruptcy
Updated: 11/03/2011 06:55A
Corzine Lived Up to Risk-Taking Reputation
Photographer: Emile Wamsteker/Bloomberg News Twenty months after taking the helm, Jon Corzine presided over MF Global's $41 billion bankruptcy, the 8th largest in US history. Twenty months after taking the helm, Jon Corzine presided over MF Global's
Updated: 11/03/2011 06:55A
RSM Tenon | Female Bankruptcies reach a record breaking high
Bankruptcies will only account for 32% of all personal insolvencies, the lowest proportion since records began. This could be down to the introduction of Debt Relief Orders (DROs) in 2009, a simplified, quicker and cheaper alternative to bankruptcy.
Updated: 11/03/2011 06:50A
How Justified Is The Arlarm By The Senate On States' Bankruptcy? —Odunayo joseph
Until this is done, Nigerians, both at home and abroad, may refuse to be carried along on the call for merger of states as the way out of the impending bankruptcy, as reported on page 5 in the Daily Sun newspaper of Friday, 28 October, 2011 where the
Updated: 11/03/2011 06:46A
First US casualty in the Eurozone war
At any rate, one thing certainly died a horrible death on October 31, and that was MF Global, a futures brokerage business run by a former US senator, which filed for bankruptcy on All Hallows' Eve after several failed attempts to find a buyer.
Updated: 11/03/2011 06:43A
Syms and Filene's Basement Getting Gutted
The Secaucus, NJ-based discount retailer and its Filene's Basement subsidiary filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Wednesday and announced plans to liquidate store operations by the end of the holiday season, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Updated: 11/03/2011 06:40A
Steve Garvey and a billion others line up to bid on the Dodgers
ESPN Los Angeles is reporting that former Dodger first baseman Steve Garvey is preparing to put in a bid for the team in the upcoming bankruptcy auction which will finally wrest control of the team from the clutches of Frank McCourt.
Updated: 11/03/2011 06:34A
CIRCOR International Reports Third Quarter 2011 Financial Results
Excluding Leslie asbestos and bankruptcy charges, net of tax, adjusted earnings per diluted share for the third quarter of 2011 were $0.62 and for 2010 were $0.69. Consolidated adjusted operating earnings (which exclude Leslie asbestos and bankruptcy
Updated: 11/03/2011 06:33A