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U.S. Bankruptcies Double 2008 Pace
U.S. Bankruptcies Double 2008 Pace
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 2:47 PM
NEW YORK -- Bankruptcies by publicly traded U.S. companies are running at twice their 2008 pace so far this year, fueled by large companies with assets of more than $1 billion, according to data released Monday by research firm BankruptcyData.com.
Through Tuesday, there have been 46 Chapter 11 or Chapter 7 bankruptcy filings in 2009 by public companies with total combined assets of $74 billion, a total nearly seven times greater than the $11 billion in assets of the 21 companies that had filed by this date last year.
Thirteen of the 2009 bankruptcies were by companies with assets of more than $1 billion before their filings, including petrochemicals maker Lyondell Chemical Co, telecommunications company Nortel Networks, and Smurfit-Stone Container Corp.
In 2007, the total assets of companies filing for bankruptcy were $782 million by this time of year, according to BankruptcyData.com.
Despite the spike, the rate of bankruptcies is still below that of 2002, a record-breaking year that had seen 60 public company bankruptcies by early March.
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