Bear Stearns left with weaker funds
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Bear Stearns Cos. narrowly averted the very public collapse of two hedge funds this week after rivals balked at forcing their immediate dissolution.
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Two Bear Stearns hedge funds, worth more than $20 billion, teetered on collapse yesterday after absorbing major losses from investments in the subprime mortgage industry.
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Bear Stearns Cos. Inc.  does not plan to bail out a second struggling fund that invests in repackaged debt securities, a source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday, while a company the investment bank set up to invest in the securities withdrew plans for an initial public offering.
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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' loans to prevent creditors from seizing more assets, Bloomberg reported on its Web site on Friday.
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Leading shares ended lower as a weak early session on Wall Street added to sharp falls in heavyweight miners and oil stocks on the back of volatile energy prices.
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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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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 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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Stocks fell sharply on Friday, dragged lower by the heavily weighted financial sector after Bear Stearns Cos. Inc.  said it bailed out a hedge fund that is facing margin calls.
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UK blue chips have closed weaker but off session lows, although Wall Street made dull progress today, with London investors focused on a mixed batch of major results and corporate news.
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Stocks were little changed on Thursday as a weak outlook from economic bellwether FedEx and sharply lower profit from investment bank Bear Stearns helped stall a rally that followed this week's aggressive interest rate cut.
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Leading shares closed weaker with Wall Street remaining lower on interest rate jitters and Enterprise Inns down in the blue chips ahead of the July 1 smoking ban.
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Vanguard and Fidelity hinder Barclays' ETF strategy.
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Investment bank Bear Stearns Cos. Inc. , one of the nation's largest mortgage bond underwriters, said on Thursday quarterly earnings fell by a third as lower mortgage underwriting volumes cut into bond revenue and it wrote down assets at a stock trading venture.
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UK blue chips closed lower as Wall Street remained weaker with the banking sector heavily hit, as Northern Rock dropped sharply again.
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The company told investors that two of its troubled hedge funds that bet heavily on risky subprime loans now have âvery little value.â
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Leading shares ended lower as weakness in oil heavyweights and a mixed Wall Street offset merger and acquisition fuelled gains in miners and ICI disposal news.