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So Far, 2016 Is A Boom Year For Retail Bankruptcies

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Absolutely no need to panic, then — unless the topic is retail bankruptcies , which increased year over year by 24 percent. Such is the double-edged sword of a retail industry swept up in innovation. For every new path cut through the market, the retailers standing in the way are cut down. January — Wet Seal. As of Feb.

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Chapter 11 Watch: Tough Times For Uniqlo, PacSun Gets Lucky

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Retail’s constant chase for growth means that some or even most will never reach their goals. Normally, the week’s headlines are filled with merchants stuck in a death spiral of slow sales and lackluster supply chain management. Few are inevitably spared the fate in the long run.

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APAC capital markets during the COVID-19 crisis

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Most were implementing their 2020 business plans which were carefully crafted in 2019 with full assumptions and what-ifs & whatnots. Matthew Wells: Adjusting to the “new norm” of assessing credit risk, management information may not be too helpful in judging how a company has worked through COVID-19.

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Chapter 11 Watch: Hastings Can’t Find A Date, Kmart Finds The Rumor Mill

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John Lennon and Paul McCartney sang that they got by with a little help from their friends, and when retailers are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, the backing of a financially sound ally can mean the difference between restructuring and liquidation. Or so the story goes in this week’s Chapter 11 Watch. Bankruptcies.

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Chapter 11 Watch: Sports Authority Sends Shockwaves, Gap Pulls Back

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When a retailer goes under, it’s usually a problem for that company and its investors alone. You wouldn’t guess it from the gloomy picture that the retail headlines paint, but there were no major bankruptcies over the past week. A sudden influx of cheap products on the market has brought down retailers before.

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Transcript: Dominique Mielle

Barry Ritholtz

Was that where you plan to go? RITHOLTZ: So you were very actively involved in the restructuring of the airlines post 9/11. So there really wasn’t a whole lot of restructuring and distressed assets afterwards, or was there? By ’08 and ’09, look, there were bankruptcies everywhere in every industry from retail to telecom.

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Transcript: Gary Cohn

Barry Ritholtz

It’s, it’s no different But, but inherently in futures, a whole lot more leverage, a whole lot more risk. How fundamental was that to your learning about investing, trading risk management, starting with futures? It had gone from a fairly, fairly heavy retail business to a very institutional business.

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