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China Looks Cheap—but It Has Burned Investors Before
26Dec By adminNo Comments
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China Looks Cheap—but It Has Burned Investors Before

Updated Dec. 26, 2023 12:04 am ETThe smartest strategy for investors in Chinese assets this year: Do something else.Sitting on cash was more profitable in 2023 than investing in Chinese shares, buying bonds sold by Chinese companies or betting on the performance of the yuan, the country’s currency. In many cases, even throwing away 5% or 10% of your cash would have been less costly.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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China Looks Cheap—but It Has Burned Investors Before
26Dec By adminNo Comments
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China Looks Cheap—but It Has Burned Investors Before

Dec. 25, 2023 11:00 pm ETThe smartest strategy for investors in Chinese assets this year: Do something else.Sitting on cash was more profitable in 2023 than investing in Chinese shares, buying bonds sold by Chinese companies or betting on the performance of the yuan, the country’s currency. In many cases, even throwing away 5% or 10% of your cash would have been less costly.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Creditors Cite Poll to Question Judge’s Impartiality in Fee Dispute
15Dec By adminNo Comments
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Creditors Cite Poll to Question Judge’s Impartiality in Fee Dispute

Dec. 15, 2023 5:48 pm ET|WSJ ProCreditors of 4E Brands say findings of a survey they commissioned support their case for Judge Marvin Isgur of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Houston to recuse himself from weighing in on a dispute over legal fees the maker of hand sanitizer paid its law firm.  The creditors are seeking the return to 4E Brands of fees it paid to the Jackson Walker law firm. The creditors say Isgur shouldn’t rule on their request because of his friendship and professional relationship of more than two decades with David R. Jones, a former bankruptcy judge who had been handling the company’s chapter 11 case.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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FDIC Hires Law Firm Cleary Gottlieb to Handle Workplace Culture Review
12Dec By adminNo Comments
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FDIC Hires Law Firm Cleary Gottlieb to Handle Workplace Culture Review

A special committee at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said it had hired the law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP to conduct a review into the workplace culture, replacing another previously hired law firm nearly a month after The Wall Street Journal revealed allegations of harassment and discrimination pervaded the agency.Led by former acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Joon Kim, Cleary Gottlieb will examine allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct as well as other issues related to the workplace culture, including “any practices that might discourage or otherwise deter the reporting of, or appropriate response to, harassment and interpersonal misconduct,” the special committee said.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5edd...
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FDIC Hires Law Firm Cleary Gottlieb to Handle Workplace Culture Review
11Dec By adminNo Comments
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FDIC Hires Law Firm Cleary Gottlieb to Handle Workplace Culture Review

A special committee at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said it had hired the law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP to conduct a review into the workplace culture, replacing another previously hired law firm nearly a month after The Wall Street Journal revealed allegations of harassment and discrimination pervaded the agency.Led by former acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Joon Kim, Cleary Gottlieb will examine allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct as well as other issues related to the workplace culture, including “any practices that might discourage or otherwise deter the reporting of, or appropriate response to, harassment and interpersonal misconduct,” the special committee said.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5edd...
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Cyberattack on Kansas Courts Leaves Lawyers Filing ‘Everything by Fax’
25Nov By adminNo Comments
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Cyberattack on Kansas Courts Leaves Lawyers Filing ‘Everything by Fax’

Kansas attorney Kayla Clark can typically file legal documents online. She can see when a judge signed them. But she has been locked out of this digital world for more than a month, one of numerous lawyers and litigants forced to go analog in the wake of an October cyberattack that has crippled Kansas’ court system and made it mostly impossible to pay fines, file for divorces or complete other legal tasks online.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Walmart Earnings, Low Fuel Prices Drag on Stocks
18Nov By adminNo Comments
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Walmart Earnings, Low Fuel Prices Drag on Stocks

Earnings selloffs in Cisco Systems and Walmart pulled down the Dow. But the broader market narrowly overcame those drags as well as tumbling energy shares to keep the November rally going.The S&P 500 added 0.1%. The tech-oriented Nasdaq Composite eked out a smaller gain than that and is now up 9.8% this month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed about 0.1%, or 46 points.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Republican FDIC Board Members Call for Broader Oversight of Misconduct Probe at Agency
15Nov By adminNo Comments
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Republican FDIC Board Members Call for Broader Oversight of Misconduct Probe at Agency

Updated Nov. 15, 2023 9:22 am ETTwo Republican members of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. board on Wednesday called for the board—not just the chairman—to oversee an investigation into allegations of harassment and discrimination at the agency. “The conduct reported by The Wall Street Journal earlier this week has no place at this agency or anywhere in the workforce and should not be tolerated,” Vice Chairman Travis Hill and Director Jonathan McKernan said in a joint statement. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Texas Law Firm Says Former Partner Lied About Relationship With Judge
14Nov By adminNo Comments
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Texas Law Firm Says Former Partner Lied About Relationship With Judge

Updated Nov. 13, 2023 7:13 pm ET|WSJ ProTexas law firm Jackson Walker said in court documents Monday that its former partner Elizabeth Freeman lied about her romantic relationship with David R. Jones, a bankruptcy judge who was presiding over cases in which Freeman was billing hours.Jackson Walker began to investigate the matter after a shareholder involved in one of the bankruptcy cases alleged in March 2021 that Freeman and Jones were in a romantic relationship, the law firm said. At the time, it also immediately notified the Southern District of Texas Bankruptcy Court, the firm said.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8Our Intelligence. Your Advantage.Sign in or subscribe for access to peerless insight & analysis, curate...
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