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The Deal newsweekly, week of Oct. 6

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ideas.gif The House passes the bailout bill; the world continues to revolve, if with a slight wobble. The new edition of The Deal continues to offer a full panoply of coverage on the continuing crisis.

Our central interest this week is in the accelerating consolidation of banking, with a meaty story from our busy Washington bureau chief Bill McConnell on the regulatory repercussions of a handful of jumbo banks, while Cecile Kohrs Lindell reports on the steady elimination of deposit caps as the banking crisis deepened.

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But we've got a lot more in our crisis package: Matt Miller, with a dandy graphic, takes apart the varying levels of leverage that are at the heart of the problem; Vipal Monga looks at the chill in the leveraged financing markets; Neil Sen from our London office analyzes the first signs that hedge funds may be in trouble; and John E. Morris pokes into the big loss absorbed by TPG Capital with the Washington Mutual Inc. failure. John also offers a trenchant take on Huntsman Corp.'s big victory over Hexion Specialty Chemicals Inc. and Apollo Management LP in Delaware.

But that's not all. The new issue also brings you a hearty Middle Market Special Report. I'm not going to pretend the news is good, but that's not what we're here for. Nathanial Baker leads off with a broad overview of where we stand in middle-market dealmaking. His prognosis: Ssome not so bad, many not so good. The crunch has hit the middle market, and some fear months of real distress. We also take deeper dives in three middle-market hotbeds: restaurants (Demitri Diakantonis), banking (Luisa Beltran) and defense (Thomas Zadvydas). We wrap it up with a Q&A by Vyvyan Tenorio with John Bolduc of H.I.G. Capital, which was lucky enough to have just raised a distressed fund.

And, of course, there's our usual columns and analysis. Check it out. We'll be back with more world-altering developments in a mere week. - Robert Teitelman



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