Bear Stearns net drops on mortgage woes, charge
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Investment bank Bear Stearns Cos. Inc. , one of the nation's largest mortgage bond underwriters, said on Thursday quarterly earnings fell by a third as trouble in the mortgage market hurt bond trading revenue and it wrote down assets at a stock trading venture.
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Bear Stearns Cos Inc  posted a much bigger-than-expected quarterly loss on Thursday, capping a fiscal year when the fifth-largest U.S. investment bank took a beating on bad bets on risky subprime mortgages.
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Morgan Stanley  on Wednesday  said its third-quarter earnings fell, reflecting damage caused  by the broad sell-off in mortgage and corporate loan markets  this summer, though revenue rose on strong investment banking  and stock trading.
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Stock index futures fell on Wednesday as news that deep losses on subprime mortgage bonds have left two Bear Stearns hedge funds almost worthless further worried investors already edgy after lackluster results from Intel Corp.  and Yahoo Inc.
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Morgan Stanley and Bear Stearns said on Wednesday that their third-quarter earnings fell, the first declines for the investment banks in more than a year.
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Bear Stearns, the securities firm that had a big part in triggering the collapse of the subprime market, yesterday reported the first quarterly losses in eight decades in business after write-downs for mortgage holdings and declines in trading and investment banking.
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Morgan Stanley and Bear Stearns Cos. said fiscal third-quarter earnings fell, their first declines in more than a year. The results sparked concern that Wall Street profits are slowing, and shares of many securities firms dropped.
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Barclays PLC  may have tallied big losses in a Bear Stearns Cos.  hedge fund that invested in risky mortgages, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.
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Bear Stearns Cos. Inc.  does not plan to bail out the second of two struggling hedge funds -- citing stabilizing markets -- but the subprime loan woes that brought down the funds still worry investors.
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- Bear Stearns said it expects Standard &amp; Poor's 500 financials to recognize mortgage and other credit-related write-downs of $125 billion to $175 billion, adding that write-downs in Europe should not cause "widespread panic" for U.S. counterparts.
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Net income at the bank fell to $1.69 billion in the third quarter, hurt by write-downs related to difficult credit market conditions.
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US investment bank Morgan Stanley on Wednesday said quarterly profit dropped by a third on lower bond trading revenue, weak equities results and higher expenses, falling
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U.S. Treasury debt prices dropped on  Wednesday as the market succumbed to profit-taking after  racking up sizable gains over the past month.
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The investment bank reported 3rd-quarter profit fell 3% to $887 million, on fallout from the subprime-mortgage crisis.
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Brokerage Bear Stearns Companies  BSC.N on Wednesday said quarterly profit fell 10 percent hurt  by lower investment banking revenue and higher expenses.
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Bear Stearns Cos Inc  said on  Thursday quarterly profit plunged 61 percent to its lowest  level in five years on bad bets on subprime mortgages and  disrupted fixed-income trading.
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Bear Stearns profits fall 61% as a result of the credit crisis and exposure to sub-prime debt.