Bear Stearns fund facing mortgage losses: WSJ
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A hedge fund managed by Bear Stearns Cos. Inc.  is scrambling to sell large amounts of mortgage-backed bonds in a potentially troubling sign for the broader mortgage-backed bond market, The Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition.
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Stocks slid on Wednesday as worries grew about how far troubles in the subprime mortgage market could spread, a day after Bear Stearns said two hedge funds with big bets on the sector were nearly worthless.
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U.S. stocks fell on Thursday after worries about bad mortgage debts hit bank shares and a warning from luxury home builder Toll Brothers Inc.  reignited concern about the erosion of the housing market.
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Morgan Stanley  on Wednesday said it has suffered a $3.7 billion loss stemming from its U.S. subprime mortgage exposure, which it expects will reduce fourth-quarter earnings by about $2.5 billion.
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Stocks fell sharply on Friday, dragged lower by the heavily weighted financial sector after Bear Stearns Cos. Inc.  said it bailed out a hedge fund that is facing margin calls.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc's  bet that securities backed by risky home loans would fall in value brought nearly $4 billion of profits in the year ended November 30, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Thursday, citing people familiar with its finances.
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Two Bear Stearns hedge funds, worth more than $20 billion, teetered on collapse yesterday after absorbing major losses from investments in the subprime mortgage industry.
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Bear Stearns Cos. Inc.  is not currently planning to bail out a second hedge fund that has suffered big losses, a source close to the matter said on Tuesday.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc.  and Bear Stearns Cos. Inc.  are learning that it's a tough time to be in the U.S. mortgage business.
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U.S. stocks fell on Wednesday on deepening concerns that a crisis in lending could spread and a warning from the Federal Reserve chairman that weakness in housing could hurt economic growth for some time.
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Troubles with subprime mortgages cast a shadow over the stock market last week as investors worried about a potential growth in losses on loans to risky borrowers. Still, stocks managed to eke out small gains.
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Bear Stearns Cos. , the biggest broker for US hedge funds, has offered to provide $1.5 billion in loans to help rescue a money-losing fund run by its asset management unit, according to a person familiar with the situation.
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S&P 500 and Dow industrials futures declined on Thursday as Merrill Lynch & Co Inc  reported a larger-than-expected fourth-quarter loss because of subprime mortgage-related problems.
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Troubles buffeting the U.S. mortgage  market could get worse as resurgent crude oil prices squeeze  the finances of already hard-pressed borrowers, analysts say,  and that could spell more trouble for Wall Street.
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U.S. stocks fell on Thursday after a warning about U.S. subprime mortgage lending from Britain's HSBC  sparked a sell-off in financial stocks and investors worried that fallout from the housing slowdown may be far from over.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc's  bet  that securities backed by risky home loans would fall in value  brought nearly $4 billion of profits in the year ended November  30, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on  Thursday, citing people familiar with its finances.
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Bear Stearns Cos. Inc.  on  Friday said it will provide up to $3.2 billion in financing for  a struggling hedge fund it manages, but sources said a second  fund is still working out a restructuring plan with creditors.