Inquiry Is Over at Bear Stearns
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The investment bank Bear Stearns said yesterday that the Securities and Exchange Commission had closed an investigation into the investment bankâs municipal bond offering practices and did not plan to take any action.
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BOSTON -- An investigation of IBM Corp. by the Securities and Exchange Commission ended Tuesday without penalty, although the government found that the technology company misled analysts about employee stock-option expenses in 2005.
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Securities regulators are opening up yet another front in their long-running investigation of the mutual fund industry, examining brokerage firms that allegedly gave mutual fund employees
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James E. Cayne, Bear Stearnsâ chief, has seen the firmâs carefully honed reputation suffer from the near collapse of two hedge funds.
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Hartford Life, a unit of the Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., said Friday it is being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission for its use of "directed brokerage" in connection with its mutual funds.
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Bear's stretch of outperformance is expected to end.
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Bear Stearns CEO reportedly to be replaced by the firm's president, Alan Schwartz.
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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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An investigation of IBM Corp. by the Securities and Exchange Commission ended Tuesday without penalty, although the government found that the technology company misled analysts about employee stock-option expenses in 2005.
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Everquest Financial has withdrawn an initial public offering that disclosed that its assets had been bought from Bear Stearnsâ two troubled hedge funds.
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Barclays Bank Plc  on Wednesday accused Bear Stearns Co Inc  of using two hedge funds that collapsed last summer as places to unload troubled assets.
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US regulators launch an inquiry into whether Wall Street's top brokers adopted trading practices which left clients out of pocket.
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Federal prosecutors are investigating  whether a Bear Stearns Co Inc  fund manager improperly  withdrew his own money from a fund while making rosy forecasts  about the prospect of the portfolio, the Wall Street Journal  reported on Tuesday.
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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 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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Massachusetts Secretary of State William F. Galvin yesterday charged a unit of Bear Stearns Cos. with engaging in improper trading activities at two collapsed hedge funds, the first action by regulators following the funds' meltdown over the summer.
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Mortgage giant Fannie Mae is now the target of a formal inquiry by the Securities and Exchange Commission over its accounting practices, the company said in a regulatory filing yesterday.