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‘ Detroit’s Bankruptcy Hearing Resumes ‘
#AceFinanceNews – DETROIT – September 29 – Testimony is to resume this morning in the hearings on Detroit’s bid to get out of bankruptcy, and the federal judge overseeing the case is expected to rule on a request that he order Detroit’s water department to enact a six-month pause in shutting off service over unpaid bills.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes also is likely to hear updates from city lawyers about the agreement reached last week to keep emergency manager Kevyn Orr on the job until the bankruptcy exit strategy is approved, yet restore power to run city government to Mayor Mike Duggan and the City Council.
During a meeting of the city’s financial advisory board on Friday, Orr outlined the arrangement that will keep him in charge of shepherding Detroit through the final stages of its bankruptcy.
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#AceFinanceNews KIEV March 27 #ANS2014
#AceFinanceNews – KIEV – March 27
Ukraine is standing on the verge of the economic and financial bankruptcy, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the acting prime minister of Ukraine, said at a parliamentary session on Thursday.
` Mt Gox the largest ` Bitcoin Exchange ‘ files for ` Bankruptcy ‘ amid rumours of Hacking ‘
#AceFinanceNews says that `Tokyo‘s Mt Gox Bitcoin Exchange has filed for `Bankruptcy‘ amid missing currency‘.

Investors may have lost all of their virtual coins, as the exchange’s computer system was exposed to fraudulent transactions and technical failures.
A leaked internal Mt Gox “crisis strategy” document suggesting that the exchange site had been hacked and hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of the cryptocurrency stolen began to circulate online.
Technical glitches in February forced the trading platform to halt deposits, causing the already volatile crypto-currency to plunge 20 percent. On Friday it was listed at $565.07 on Winkdex, a New York-based bitcoin value index.
Mt Gox once claimed to host nearly 80 percent of all bitcoin transactions worldwide, and was the primary source cited for bitcoin prices.

After it the site crashed on Monday, the value of bitcoin fell to $440, a 3-month low after the currency reached highs above $1000 at the end of November.
On Monday, Mark Karpeles, the chief executive of the now defunct exchange, resigned Mt Gox from the board of the Bitcoin Foundation ‘effective immediately’.
Karpeles remained mum after the site went offline, but on Friday told a press conference that Mt Gox wants to file a criminal probe into the hacking.

Screenshot from www.mtgox.com
Bit-coin, an alternative to traditional currencies, isn’t backed by any official government or central bank, which makes recovering losses difficult.
Central banks across the globe have begun to crackdown on the cryptocurrency, instructing financial institutions not to accept bit-coins because they have no legal status or monetary-backing, like state-backed currencies.