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The Practical NLRB Advisor: Fall 2023

Ogletree Deakins’ Traditional Labor Relations Practice Group is pleased to announce the publication of the Fall 2023 issue of the Practical NLRB Advisor. In this issue of the Advisor, we cover three of those sharply divided...more

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Fed Chair Pledges to Raise Rates to Fight Inflation

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The latest from Fed Chair Powell’s first day of confirmation hearings, including the expected news that the central bank is prepared to raise interest rates to tame inflation, tying that goal to the Fed’s other mandate by...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.17.2021 | Top Story: World Bank Withdraws “Doing Business” Report After Probe Suggests Improper Influence

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In what appears to be a serious black eye for the organization, the World Bank has canceled its prominent “Doing Business” report (which rates the “business environment of the world’s countries”) after an “investigation...more

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Absolute Payment Obligations, Frustration & Stay of Execution - Latest Developments

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In a decision handed down at the end of April, the Commercial Court, in Wilmington Trust SP Services (Dublin) Ltd and others v Spicejet Ltd [2021], has provided guidance on the English law doctrines of illegality and...more

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Financial Daily Dose 4.30.2021 | Top Story: U.S. Economy Flourishes in Q1 on Pent-up Demand and Stimulus Spending

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New numbers show that the U.S. economy “picked up speed last quarter,” expanding 1.6% in the first three months of the year [for an annualized 6.4%], as a mix of stimulus money and falling unemployment helped power consumer...more

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Financial Daily Dose 3.18.2021 | Top Story: Fed Commits to Near-Zero Rates Despite Improving Economy

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The latest and greatest from Fed Chair Powell as the Fed’s March Open Markets Committee meeting wrapped yesterday, including a markets-pleasing assurance that better-than-expected economic growth wasn’t enough to push the...more

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Financial Daily Dose 2.22.2021 | Top Story: Boeing Grounds Some 777 Models After Engine Explosion on United Flight

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Boeing needs another aircraft problem like a hole in the head, but that’s just what it got after a right-engine explosion on one of its 777-200 models that had just left Denver en route to Hawaii. ...more

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Financial Daily Dose 2.8.2021 | Top Story: Weak Jan. Jobs Report Paves Way for Biden’s Covid Relief Plan

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Friday’s “anemic” jobs report (just 49,000 jobs added in January, and precious few of those in the private sector) “underscored the pandemic’s brutal damage to the job market” and likely made President Biden’s sale of his...more

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Financial Daily Dose 1.19.2021 | Top Story: Fiat Chrysler and PSA Group Finalize Merger to Form Auto Behemoth Stellantis NV

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Fiat Chrysler and France’s PSA Group completed their mega-auto-merger first agreed-to in late 2019, “creating Stellantis NV, a global auto-making giant that executives say will have the heft needed to compete in the...more

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Financial Daily Dose 1.11.2021 | Top Story: U.S. loses 140k jobs in December as virus surge hampers recovery

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Aaaand we’re back. Hope all have stayed safe and healthy. Let’s get to business. Friday’s Jobs Report saw the U.S. recovery thrown in reverse, with employers cutting 140,000 jobs in December amidst “rising coronavirus cases...more

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Financial Daily Dose 12.15.2020 | Top Story: Moderates Push Skinnier Covid Relief Bill that Strips Out Sticking Points

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The latest lame-duck Covid relief package proposal would trim about 150 billion dollars (and a number of key sticking points, including funds “to bolster state and local governments, and a temporary coronavirus liability...more

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Financial Daily Dose 11.19.2020 | Top Story: FAA Clears Boeing’s Troubled 737 Max to Return to Skies

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The FAA has once again given Boeing the green light to send its troubled 737 Max models into the sky, “20 months after it was grounded following two fatal crashes blamed on faulty software and a host of company and government...more

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Financial Daily Dose 11.11.2020 | Top Story: Alibaba Hoping for Huge Singles’ Day Haul on Pent-Up Demand

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TikTok parent ByteDance, flying under the radar as other recent events have shoved the White House’s battle with the company to the back burner, has “asked a U.S. appeals court for additional time to work out a potential...more

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Financial Daily Dose 11.10.2020 | Top Story: EU Unveils New Antitrust Investigation and Charges Against Amazon

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The European Union has unveiled a new antitrust probe and accompanying charges against Amazon over alleged the “use of non-public business data from independent sellers on its marketplace that could benefit the company’s own...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.29.2020 | Top Story: Stocks Lose Most Since June as Renewed Covid Fears Set In

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Wall Street had another come-to-Jesus day over the troubling recent Covid trends, as surging cases throughout the U.S. and across Europe drove markets to their worst performance since June....more

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Coronavirus: The Hill and the Headlines, October 2020 # 4

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In Washington: President Trump left Walter Reed Medical Center Monday evening despite his personal doctor, Sean Conley, saying he “may not be entirely out of the woods yet.” In a memo on Tuesday, his doctor said the...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.30.2020 | Top Story: JPMorgan Reaches $920M Settlement with Feds Over Spoofing Allegations

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Under the terms of a deal with the DOJ announced this week, JPMorgan will pay $920 million and sign on to a deferred prosecution agreement “to resolve charges that it had manipulated markets for U.S. government bonds and...more

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Top Five Labor Law Developments for August 2020

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1. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) upheld an administrative law judge’s (ALJ) ruling directing an unfair labor practice trial to be conducted by videoconference because of the COVID-19 pandemic. William Beaumont...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.9.2020 | Top Story: Luxury-Goods Giant LMVH Pulls Out of $16 Billion Deal to Acquire Tiffany & Co.

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Blaming a “U.S. move to impose tariffs on French goods,” luxury brand conglomerate LMVH is pulling out of a proposed $16 billion deal to buy jeweler Tiffany & Co. Tiffany is now suing to enforce the ill-fated agreement....more

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Financial Daily Dose 8.19.2020 | Top Story: S&P 500 Erases Pandemic Losses Despite U.S. Failure to Control Virus

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Unlike much of the world, the U.S. has not turned the corner on the coronavirus outbreak. But you wouldn’t know it by looking at the markets. On Tuesday, the S&P 500 topped out at its highest level ever, “capping a remarkable...more

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Financial Daily Dose 8.17.2020 | Top Story: White House Sets 90-day Deadline for TikTok Owner to Divest in U.S.

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The White House has “doubled down” on its recent actions against TikTok by “formally giving ByteDance, the Chinese owner of the popular video-sharing app, 90 days to divest from its American assets and any data that TikTok...more

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Financial Daily Dose 8.4.2020 | Top Story: Twitter to Pay FTC Up to $250 Over Privacy Violations

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Twitter will pay the Federal Trade Commission up to $250 million to “resolve new charges . . . that the social media giant breached a 2011 consent decree by using data provided for security purposes to target users with...more

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Coronavirus: The Hill and the Headlines – COVID-19 D.C. Update – July 2020 #21

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In Washington - Democrats and Republicans continue to be in gridlock as Congress is on the cusp of the deadline on unemployment benefits. Minority Leader Charles Schumer grimly warned that that "the country is about to...more

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Export Credit Agency Financing and the Aviation Industry: What Does the Future Hold?

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The use of Export Credit Agency (ECA) financing in the aviation industry has ebbed and flowed over the years, and it is often during turbulent times that it has proved to be most popular. Given the current COVID-19 pandemic...more

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Financial Daily Dose 7.15.2020 | Top Story: America’s Biggest Banks Setting Aside Tens of Billions for Anticipated Loan Losses

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The latest quarterly reporting shows that America’s biggest banks—among them, JPMorgan, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo—are taking self-imposed hits now in anticipation of a “wave of loan losses” later. Those three are...more

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