Arch Coal Fails to Win Protection of Debt-Swap

10/20/15

A judge won’t protect rare-earths miner Arch Coal Inc.’s debt-swap deal, Daily Bankruptcy Review reports via The Wall Street Journal.

Caterpillar front-loading machinery operates on mounds of coal at Arch Coal Terminals in June 2014 in Cattletsburg, Ky. A judge failed to approve its debt-swap deal.
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