Bear Stearns bails out hedge fund
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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, and said a second fund that took greater risk is still working out a restructuring plan with creditors.
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Barclays claims Bear Stearns loaded one of its hedge funds with about $500 million in troubled assets just weeks before it and another of its fund collapsed.
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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.  on  Friday replaced the head of its asset management business after  two of the investment bank&#39;s hedge funds hit rock bottom by  making bad bets on risky mortgages.
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Some aggrieved investors are turning to lawyers to pursue possible legal claims stemming from losses at two Bear Stearns Cos.  hedge funds that were virtually wiped out from large, illiquid bets on risky mortgages.
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JPMorgan Chase & Co.  has canceled its auction of assets from two troubled Bear Stearns Cos. Inc.  hedge funds, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
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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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Bear Stearns said Friday that it would provide a loan of up to $3.2 billion to a hedge fund operated by its asset-management business, in an effort to placate lenders and investors.
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Sovereign wealth funds from Abu Dhabi, China and Singapore are quietly bailing out the West's subprime crises.
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As the investment bank with the most exposure to mortgages, Bear Stearns was particularly vulnerable to the crisis in the U.S. credit markets this summer.
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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, but sources said a second fund is still working out a restructuring plan with creditors.
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Investment bank Merrill Lynch   has seized $400 million in assets of a troubled hedge fund at  Bear Stearns Cos. Inc.  and plans to sell them off, The  Wall Street Journal reported in its weekend edition.
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Bear Stearns Cos, the U.S.  investment bank battered by slumping mortgage markets, and  China's CITIC Securities Co have agreed to swap stakes in each  other and form a broad alliance, the firms said on Monday.
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Joseph C. Lewis, who became a billionaire trading currencies, has taken a 7 percent stake in Bear Stearns Cos Inc , snapping up about $860 million worth of the investment bank's stock over the past two months.
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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 the funds down continue to rattle investors.
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Basis Yield Alpha Fund, a hedge fund specializing in corporate and structured credit, on Wednesday filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States amid mounting losses from U.S. subprime mortgage assets, court papers show.
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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.