Bear Stearns to Bail Out Troubled Fund
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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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NEW YORK -- Bear Stearns Cos., the fifth-largest U.S. investment house, on Thursday reported robust capital markets and investment banking activity helped it achieve the best fourth quarter in the company's history.
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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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Three leading hedge funds are planning a break-up of beleaguered British bank Northern Rock , according to a newspaper report on Sunday.
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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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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 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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Stocks ended sharply lower on Friday as a pair of troubled Bear Stearns hedge funds stoked concerns that other investment banks may face large losses from subprime mortgages.
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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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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.
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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.  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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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'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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U.S. 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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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.