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April 20, 2011 | Daily Business Review

Capital Sources: Two Canadian banks, contrasting U.S. success

While TD Bank has thrived in the U.S. market, its rival and fellow Canadian bank RBC has struggled with more than $3 billion in losses in the states over the past four years.
6 minute read
May 14, 2013 | Daily Business Review

Board of Contributors: Variations To Contracting Methods Can Minimize Risk

Engaging in some form of sale of an asset — usually a facility or fee for service operation — to the private sector in a public-private partnership can help minimize risk for the public entity, attorney Frank M. Rapoport writes.
5 minute read
August 12, 2011 | Daily Business Review

Retail sales climb by most in four months

The 0.5 percent increase reported by the Commerce Department in Washington today matched the median forecast of 81 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News and followed a 0.3 percent gain in June that was larger than previously estimated.
4 minute read
April 05, 2011 | Daily Business Review

Lawyer, firm file suit over "false review"

Lawyer Michael W. Weston and his firm, Weston & Associates, have filed a defamation suit alleging a "false review" about the firm was posted online on Citysearch.com. They seek more than $1.25 million in damages.
4 minute read
August 06, 2010 | Daily Business Review

On Facebook, wife learns of husband's second wedding

Lynn France typed into Facebook the name of the woman with whom she believed her husband was having an affair and found a photo album full of Disney wedding photos.
6 minute read
April 21, 2011 | Daily Business Review

Jeffrey Epstein's attorneys fight to keep plea discussions private

Three attorneys who represented sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have filed a motion to intercede in a lawsuit seeking to nix the one-time Palm Beach billionaire's nonprosecution agreement with the federal government.
6 minute read
February 01, 2011 | Daily Business Review

Mayor takes to the radio to blast judge

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg used his weekly radio broadcast to sound off against a judge?s decision to block the city from laying off several deputy sheriffs.
8 minute read
June 25, 2013 | Daily Business Review

9th Circuit Hears Hotel Guest Privacy Case

If the court strikes down an L.A. ordinance requiring local hotels to keep guest information available for inspection for 90 days, it would be the second en banc decision this year blocking a warrantless search program.
4 minute read
September 19, 2011 | Daily Business Review

Nevin Shapiro's high-stakes fraud

A grocery diverting business became a Ponzi that fueled a lavish lifestyle, supported a gambling habit and produced a major controversy for the University of Miami
11 minute read
November 06, 2012 | Daily Business Review

Morgan Stanley's Kelleher faces profit task solo as Taubman goes

Colm Kelleher, who will take over as sole head of Morgan Stanley's investment bank as his counterpart and past rival Paul J. Taubman exits, now faces the challenge of improving returns at the firm's biggest business.
8 minute read

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