Merger deals boost Bear Stearns
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Investment bank Bear Stearns reports a 38% jump in quarterly profits, boosted by merger and acquisition deals.
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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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With merger and acquisition fever hitting new highs, which deals will work out?
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PRIVATE equity firms, flush with cash from wealthy institutions and other investors eager for extraordinary returns, snapped up more and bigger companies this week in a burst of takeovers impressive even in a year that is shaping up as a record for mergers.
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U.S. stocks rose on Tuesday, helped by better-than-expected results from Wal-Mart Stores Inc.  and a handful of merger deals, including a plan by Sirius Satellite Radio  to buy rival XM Satellite Radio  for $4.6 billion.
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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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The S&P 500 stock index touched a six-year high on Thursday as higher-than-expected earnings from investment bank Bear Stearns Co. Inc. , retailer Costco Wholesale Corp.  and other companies improved the outlook for steady profit growth.
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Bear Stearns earned a big slice of Wall Street's growing pie.
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Corporate deal makers started the summer hoping an improved economy would make this merger season a hot one. As the bullish stock market and other merger-friendly conditions fizzled, however, so did their hopes.
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Asian and European stocks climb as a flurry of takeover news raises hopes of a recovery in markets.
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The stock market surged during abbreviated trading last week, propelled by the wave of mergers and acquisitions that has buoyed it for months.
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WASHINGTON - Bear Stearns Cos. , reeling from mortgage-related losses, shored up investor support by selling a stake to China's government-controlled Citic Securities Co. and gaining a foothold in the world's best-performing stock market.
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Stocks rose in early trading Monday after a fresh round of buyout news offered evidence that Wall Street's penchant for dealmaking hasn't disappeared.
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ST. LOUIS  - Investment bank Bear Stearns & Co.   BSC.N on Thursday said third-quarter net income rose nearly   16 percent, easily beating Wall Street expectations, on strong   fixed-income trading.
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Stocks rose on Monday, boosted by takeover news in the telecommunications sector.
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NEW YORK, July 23 -- Stocks rebounded Monday after a fresh round of buyout news offered evidence that Wall Street's penchant for dealmaking has not disappeared.
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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.