Bear Stearns may become takeover target amid unrest
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Bear Stearns Cos Inc's   management shake-up could make the investment bank a takeover  target, but the possibility of more write-downs and chance of  legal entanglements from the subprime mortgage crisis could  sideline suitors for now, analysts said on Tuesday.
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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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Bear Stearns Cos Inc's management shake-up could make the investment bank a takeover target, but the possibility of more write-downs and chance of legal entanglements from the subprime mortgage crisis could sideline suitors for now, analysts said on Tuesday.
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British billionaire Joseph Lewis has taken a 7 percent stake in Bear Stearns Cos Inc , snapping up about $860 million worth of the investment bank's stock.
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Bear Stearns Cos shares soared 7.7 percent on Wednesday on a report that several investors, including Warren Buffett, may buy part of the Wall Street investment bank.
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Bear Stearns Cos. , trying to  prevent the collapse of two of its hedge funds, may take over  about $3.2 billion of the funds&#39; loans to prevent creditors  from seizing more assets, Bloomberg reported on its Web site on  Friday.
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Business & money: Government to get tough with bidders for Northern Rock during crisis meetings
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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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Bankers remain wary of plans to  launch a massive investment rescue fund to soften the blow of  the U.S. subprime meltdown, saying it could interfere with a  market recovery and stall a resolution to the credit crisis.
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The leveraged buyouts that have fuelled record merger activity face a new test as interest rates rise and stock markets wobble, early signs that the debt behind the deals could become more costly and difficult to raise.
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The possibility of big mergers sweeping the United States airline industry is one of the oldest stories on Wall Street &#8212; and so far, it has largely been a piece of fiction. But some analysts seem to think that this could be the year it comes true. On Wednesday, UBS and Bear Stearns published separate reports [...].
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NEW YORK -- Bear Stearns Cos.'s attempt to rescue its money-losing hedge funds may falter now that creditor Merrill Lynch &amp; Co. has decided to seize and sell $800 million worth of bonds held as collateral for loans to the funds.
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The recent woes of Citigroup  have encouraged some investment bankers to talk up the chances that the biggest U.S. bank might feel pressure to buy a major U.S. rival, with Wells Fargo & Co.  and even Goldman Sachs Group  touted as potential merger partners.
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The leveraged buyouts that have fuelled  record merger activity face a new test as interest rates rise  and stock markets wobble, early signs that the debt behind the  deals could become more costly and difficult to raise.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission is examining the near-collapse of two Bear Stearns hedge funds that made bad bets on the mortgage market.
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The blog of a Bear Stearns executive offers insights into the investment bankâs response to the near collapse of two hedge funds.
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Bear Stearns Cos  shares soared  7.7 percent on Wednesday on a report that several investors,  including Warren Buffett, may buy part of the Wall Street  investment bank.