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So sue meTo say that it hasn't been a good week for Refco falls into the same category of understatement as saying that I often wake up on Saturday mornings with a bit of a sore head. That said, if you had asked the broker a few weeks back whether it would, in general, be happy to knock Man Financial off the front pages then its strategy people would probably have said yes, so I suppose in a way they should be pleased. Perhaps. In the middle of the carnage, though, I was quite entertained by the actions of hordes of US lawyers, anxious it would seem to live up to their reputation for chasing any ambulance in sight. In this case, barely had the news of Refco's unfortunate situation hit the wires before New York's courts were flooded with a veritable tidal wave of class action suits. No great...

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