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Since its inception in the early nineteenth century, the U.S. commercial paper market has grown to become a key source of short-term funding for major businesses, with issuance averaging over $100 billion per day. In the fall of 2008, the commercial paper market achieved national prominence when increasing market stress caused some to fear that, given its size and importance, the market's failure would sharply worsen the recession. The Department of the Treasury and Federal Reserve enacted programs targeted at providing credit and liquidity to restore investor confidence. The authors review the history of the commercial paper market, describe its structure and key relationships to money market mutual funds, and present a detailed discussion of the crisis in the market, including the res...
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FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
In re: PALMDALE HILLS PROPERTY, 
LLC,
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A written instrument or document such as a check, draft, promissory note, or a certificate of deposit, that manifests the pledge o...
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SAO PAULO -- Fitch Ratings has upgraded Redecard S.A.'s investment grade foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDR) to 'BBB+' from 'BBB' ...
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NEW YORK, June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Credit Suisse's Asset Management division today announced the release of a new white paper from the Customized Funds Investment Group ("CFIG") titled, "Commercial Real Estate: Has the Tide Turned?" Authored by Kelly Williams, Head of CFIG, Nadim Barakat, CIO of CFIG and Peter Braffman, a Partner on the CFIG Real Estate team, the paper highlights the factors pointing to a recovery in the commercial real estate market, and the opportunities a strengthening market could provide to commercial real estate investors.
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Originally published in Pratt's Journal of Bankruptcy Law
The authors of this article discuss a Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit case that e...
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NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings affirms the city of Gainesville, Florida's $62 million of commercial paper notes, Series 2010C, issued for the Gainesville R...
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Commission staff outlines privacy protections businesses will be expected to provide as collection technologies advance
Commerce staff proposes new ...