Bear Stearns bond offering practices investigated
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The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating Bear Stearns Cos&#39; (BSC.N: Quote, Profile, Research) municipal bond offering practices, according to a filing from the US investment bank.
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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 trouble in the mortgage market hurt bond trading revenue and it wrote down assets.
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Securities regulators are probing several brokerage firms dealing with collateralized mortgage obligations, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
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Bear Stearns Cos  is being investigated by Massachusetts securities regulators over whether the bank improperly traded with two in-house hedge funds that collapsed last summer, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
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Questions are growing about whether law firms that helped investment banks bundle home loans into securities adequately disclosed the risks to investors.
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New York prosecutors are investigating whether Wall Street banks withheld information about the risks stemming from subprime loan-linked investments, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
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The blog of a Bear Stearns executive offers insights into the investment bankâs response to the near collapse of two hedge funds.
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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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NEW YORK -- Bear Stearns Cos. offered $3.2 billion in loans to bail out one of its failing hedge funds, the biggest rescue since 1998, after creditors started seizing assets and investors demanded their money back.
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Securities regulators are examining whether brokerage firms lavished golf outings, Super Bowl tickets and other gifts on mutual fund advisers to get them to bring their trading business to the firms.
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U.S. antitrust regulators are investigating possible anti-competitive practices at the American Stock Exchange and Chicago Board Options Exchange, according to the annual report of the National Association of Securities Dealers.
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Although Bear Stearns investors want to see the firm increase its international exposure, there is uncertainty as to whether the Citic deal will contribute to earnings.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating matters related to Merrill Lynch & Co Inc's  subprime mortgage portfolio, the company said on Wednesday.
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Bear Stearns Cos Inc's  management shake-up could make the investment bank a takeover target, but the specter of more write-downs and possible legal entanglements from the subprime credit crisis might keep suitors on the sidelines, analysts said on Tuesday.
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BOSTON -- Fidelity Investments and several brokerages that handle the mutual fund giant&#39;s trading have received subpoenas from regulators seeking information about gift-giving practices in the mutual fund industry, according to a published report Tuesday.
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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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Federal prosecutors are talking to  high ranking officials at Bear Stearns Cos Inc  after  the collapse of two hedge funds last summer, and an indictment  of the firm is possible, CNBC's reporter Charlie Gasparino said  on Thursday.