Bear Stearns

News

1. Investing: Beware the low-return, high-expense fund

   Thu, 30 Aug 2012

   TODAY. His Investing column appears Fridays. See an index of Waggoner's columns . His book, Bailout: What the Rescue of Bear Stearns and the Credit Crisis Mean for Your Investments , is available through John Wiley & Sons. John's e-mail is jwaggoner
2. Investing: In the quest for income, REITs look promising

   Thu, 23 Aug 2012

   TODAY. His Investing column appears Fridays. See an index of Waggoner's columns . His book, Bailout: What the Rescue of Bear Stearns and the Credit Crisis Mean for Your Investments , is available through John Wiley & Sons. John's e-mail is jwaggoner
3. High-yield muni funds can make some money, but risk's high

   Thu, 16 Aug 2012

   TODAY. His Investing column appears Fridays. See an index of Waggoner's columns . His book, Bailout: What the Rescue of Bear Stearns and the Credit Crisis Mean for Your Investments , is available through John Wiley & Sons. John's e-mail is jwaggoner
4. European stocks: Are they worth the investment risk?

   Thu, 19 Jul 2012

   TODAY. His Investing column appears Fridays. See an index of Waggoner's columns . His book, Bailout: What the Rescue of Bear Stearns and the Credit Crisis Mean for Your Investments , is available through John Wiley & Sons. John's e-mail is jwaggoner
5. Investing: Are self-directed IRAs too good to be true?

   Thu, 12 Jul 2012

   TODAY. His Investing column appears Fridays. See an index of Waggoner's columns . His book, Bailout: What the Rescue of Bear Stearns and the Credit Crisis Mean for Your Investments , is available through John Wiley & Sons. John's e-mail is jwaggoner
6. Six Nation Debt Downgrade: Morning Business Memo

   Tue, 14 Feb 2012

   Some of McDonald's suppliers have already announced plans to phase out the stalls. Two former top financial executives at Bear Stearns have reached settlements with federal regulators over civil charges they misled investors about risky mortgage securities
7. Obama Makes Rare Visit to Chicago Home

   Thu, 12 Jan 2012

   away. "It's all my neighbors!" the president said as he greeted roughly 140 supporters at the Hyde Park home of former Bear Stearns executive Stuart Taylor and his wife Evonne Taylor. The president pointed out old friends in the crowd, including people

Videos

1. 
   $2 Was Too Little for Bear Stearns

   Mon, 24 Mar 2008

   JPMorgan Chase has raised its offer for Bear Stearns to ten dollars per share. They will will also by 39 and a half percent of Bear Stearns stock from the company. Initial stock Reserve must still approve the increase. Bear Stearns stock was going for 67 dollars a share

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   JPMorgan Chase has raised its offer for Bear Stearns to ten dollars per share. They will also say they say they will also by 39 and a half percent of Bear Stearns stock from the company. Initial stock offer for the investment bank was two dollars a share but the Federal Reserve must still approve the increase. Bear Stearns stock was going for 67 dollars a share just two weeks ago. And 170. Dollars per share a year ago.
2. 
   Bear Stearns Scandal

   Thu, 19 Jun 2008

   A nine count indictment against two Bear Stearns hedge fund managers has been unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn New York. Ralph Chelsea in Matthew ten and are charged with

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   A nine count indictment against two Bear Stearns hedge fund managers has been unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn New York. Ralph Chelsea in Matthew ten and are charged with
3. 
   Google Searches: Army Combat Shirt, Bear Stearns

   Thu, 20 Sep 2007

   Also rising in Google searches today two very different profit reports out of Wall Street. The Wall Street investment bank Bear Stearns reported that its third quarter profit dropped 61%. Analysts that dropped to the sub prime mortgage crisis but in contrast

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   different profit reports out of Wall Street. The Wall Street investment bank Bear Stearns reported that its third quarter profit dropped 61%. Analysts -- that dropped to the sub prime mortgage crisis but in contrast. The
4. 
   Webcast: Bear Stearns ; Protests in Tibet; Blue Whales

   Mon, 17 Mar 2008

   after the collapse and fire sale of Bear Stearns to JPMorgan Chase at two dollars a share JPMorgan Chase has brokered a deal to buy Bear Stearns and Harris is joining me now from the doesn't quite make sense here you have Bear Stearns that owns a building in New York worth

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   point. It comes days after the collapse and -- fire sale of Bear Stearns to JPMorgan Chase at two dollars a share. Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama delivers a major speech on race later this morning

   Reserve. And the news JPMorgan Chase has brokered a deal to buy Bear Stearns and Harris is joining me now from the New York Stock Exchange and Dan. On the face of it this deal doesn't quite make sense here you have Bear Stearns that owns a building in New York worth a billion and a half dollars. And JPMorgan buys the whole company for a little bit more than 260. Million so what's going on. I mean is incredible when you think about the discount that JPMorgan may be getting here if the deal goes through their paying two dollars a share. In January of last year. Bear Stearns is trading for a 170. Dollars a share since an extraordinary discount everybody here has been talking about it all day long what's going on. Of Bear Stearns . Invested as you know eighty heavily. In mortgages many of which went sour over the last couple of years. And that created -- real panic about the company people started saying I want my money back it turned into a run on the bank. And and was teetering on the verge of collapse -- the -- swooped -- and said you're gonna do this deal with JPMorgan Chase. But the people from Bear Stearns were out last week in the press saying look we got plenty of money we got lots of liquidity. And then all of a sudden by the weekend they're gone that the Fed and forced them in effect to sell it to JPMorgan so what happened. Power of rumors that power of rumors of what happened that -- -- -- a lot of people here are telling me that that. That that banks admit there they don't sell widgets they in many ways they self confidence people have to be confident. That they're doing business with that solid institution and -- -- confidence eroded because of these rumors about. Bear Stearns keep hearing on the edge. They lost their their war their core commodity witches -- and again as I said -- when that went away everything went away. So people who own stock in Bear Stearns have lost a lot of money but people who have bought stock through Bear Stearns as a brokerage firm. -- -- -- -- That that if there is -- one individual by the way who who -- the largest shareholder in Bear Stearns at a billion dollars. Rather -- several several billion dollars -- -- cares. He lost a billion dollars as a result of
5. 
   Why Bear Stearns Bombed

   Mon, 17 Mar 2008

   JPMorgan Chase has brokered a deal to buy Bear Stearns Dan Harris is joining me now from the doesn't quite make sense here you have Bear Stearns that owns a building in New York worth a share. In January of last year. Bear Stearns was trading for a 170. Dollars a an

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   Reserve. And the news JPMorgan Chase has brokered a deal to buy Bear Stearns Dan Harris is joining me now from the New York Stock Exchange and Dan. On the face of it this deal doesn't quite make sense here you have Bear Stearns that owns a building in New York worth a billion and a half dollars. And JPMorgan buys the whole company for a little bit more than 260. Million so what's going on anything. -- when you think about the discount that JPMorgan may be getting here if the deal goes through their paying two dollars a share. In January of last year. Bear Stearns was trading for a 170. Dollars a -- -- an extraordinary -- everybody here has been talking about it all day long what's going on. Don't Bear Stearns . Invested as you know eat eat heavily. In mortgages many of which went sour over the last couple of years. And that created -- real panic about the company people started saying I want my money back it turned into a run on the bank. And and it was teetering on the verge of collapse -- -- the -- -- -- and -- -- -- -- -- deal -- JPMorgan -- But the people from Bear Stearns were out last week in the press saying look we got plenty of money we got lots of liquidity. And then all of a sudden by the weekend they're gone that the Fed and forced them in effect to sell it to JPMorgan so what happened. Power of rumors that power of rumors of what happened that -- a lot of people here are telling me that that. That that banks that there they don't sell widgets they in many ways they self confidence people have to be confident. That they're doing business -- -- solid institution and an -- confidence eroded because of these rumors about. Bear Stearns keep hearing on the edge. They lost their their war their core commodity witches -- and again as I said -- when that went away everything went away. So people who own stock in Bear Stearns have lost a lot of money but people who have bought stock through Bear Stearns as a brokerage firm. And -- they stand. That that if there is a one individual by the way who who -- the largest shareholder in Bear Stearns at a billion dollars. Rather ordered several several billion dollars -- -- cares. He lost a billion dollars as a result of
6. 
   Bear Stearns Bailout

   Mon, 17 Mar 2008

   what is really a stunning collapse. Bear Stearns it was one of the biggest names on Wall basement price. It is a fire sale. Bear Stearns the Wall Street legend in business for In which it is how. JPMorgan got Bear Stearns for assigned to good uses that Bear

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   here today as traders react to what is really a stunning collapse. Bear Stearns it was one of the biggest names on Wall Street and investment bank that made some bad bets in the housing market. And is now being sold at a bargain basement price. It is a fire sale. Bear Stearns the Wall Street legend in business for 85 years is being sold to JPMorgan Chase for just two dollars a share. To put that in perspective last year bear shares were selling for a 170 dollars. The company is now being sold for a quarter of the value of this skyscraper. In which it is how. JPMorgan got Bear Stearns for assigned to good uses that Bear Stearns got sold. And they can just go wonders. This is big economic news not just for Wall Street insiders but also for the rest of us. Through Bear Stearns is not a bank in the way your corner bank is a bank it's an investment bank that -- and borrows from other Wall Street giants. The fear though was that -- Bear Stearns fell that would set up a panic and all the other banks including your corner bank. Would put the brakes on lending
7. 
   Layoffs Loom Over Bear Stearns

   Tue, 18 Mar 2008

   Bear Stearns may be the new Enron for America. Company nest days. Fortune magazine once called Bear Stearns one of the best places to work on Wall Street those days are gone. Bear Stearns profit in four years during the real estate

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   Bear Stearns may be the new Enron for America. Company whose stock is owned by 30% of the people who work in that building and that means. That when the stock began to tumble there of course were in jeopardy not only -- their jobs but their nest days. Fortune magazine once called Bear Stearns one of the best places to work on Wall Street those days are gone. Bear Stearns profit in four years during the real estate boom by packaging and selling risky mortgages. Called sub prime loans to people --

   one receptions went up. But experts say the collapse this weekend of Bear Stearns has made it clear this is no -- and regular people. Perhaps half the Bear Stearns workforce could be laid off these -- secretaries. Now that we live in Manhattan -- commuting from. New Jersey and Long Island and leading relatively modest loss and then suddenly had major nest eggs wiped out. An average employee who had 200000 dollars in Bear Stearns stock in a retirement fund now has just over 2000 dollars. At the top the losses are even more -- The former

   people in the trouble. So -- been great to work for -- Bear Stearns for years this week is not a good week to be an employee here. Flash be the first to know what's coming