Troubled Companies Take Page From AMC Playbook in Seeking Stock-Market Lifelines

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The frenzied stock-buying activity that may have saved AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc.from bankruptcy is opening up a potential escape hatch for other troubled borrowers as well. More companies with ...

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