Bear Stearns bails out hedge fund
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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.
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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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Bear Stearns Cos.  has offered to infuse $1.5 billion of its own capital to help rescue a Bear Stearns hedge fund on the brink of collapse, people familiar with the situation said on Tuesday.
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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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Bear Stearns Cos. Inc.  on Friday replaced the head of its asset management business after two of the investment bank's hedge funds hit rock bottom by making bad bets on risky mortgages.
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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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A hedge fundâs near-collapse stems directly from bad bets on subprime mortgages and is the biggest such bailout since 1998.
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Investors in two struggling Bear  Stearns Cos.  hedge funds that made bad bets on risky  mortgages will almost surely file lawsuits in hopes of  recouping losses, but legal experts say they could have a tough  time proving their case.
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Bear Stearns Cos. Inc.  on Friday said it would provide up to $3.2 billion in financing for a struggling hedge fund it manages, raising concern about other funds that invested in bonds linked to subprime mortgages.
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Bear Stearns Co 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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Joseph C. Lewis, who became a  billionaire trading currency, has taken a 7 percent stake in  Bear Stearns Cos Inc , snapping up about $860 million  worth of the investment bank&#39;s stock over the past two months.
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A federal judge denied Bear Stearns bankruptcy protection for two failed hedge funds it managed, but granted the investment bank 30 days to refile before investors can seize assets.
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Bear Stearns Cos. may put up $1.6 billion to rescue one of its money losing hedge funds, half as much as it offered last week, according to two people with knowledge of the situation.
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European equity markets sank on Wednesday after subprime concerns resurfaced following the announcement by Bear Stearns (NYSE:BSC) that two of its hedge funds, both backed by subprime loans, were &quot;virtually worthless&quot;.
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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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Regulators said on Wednesday that Bear Stearns Cos. Inc.  should be able to unwind the positions of its two troubled hedge funds without causing wider financial market distress.
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Investors in Bear Stearns Cos.  hedge funds that were virtually wiped out from large bets on risky mortgages are planning to sue the company as early as Monday, television channel CNBC reported on Friday.