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Asia Opens To A Terrible Beating, Some Shares Off Over 4% Early

Posted: March 16, 2008 at 7:57 pm

The news that Bear Stearns (NYSE: BSC) was sold to JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) and that the Fed would increase liquidity for primary dealers was too much for the Japanese ...
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Federal Reserve Acts To Avert A Panic

Posted: March 16, 2008 at 7:29 pm

The Federal Reserve Board unanimously approved a request by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to decrease the primary credit rate from 3-1/2 percent to 3-1/4 percent. The Fed ...
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Bear Stearns (BSC) Will Probably Disappear Into JP Morgan (JPM)

Posted: March 16, 2008 at 4:53 pm

According to The Wall Street Journal, JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) is close to buying Bear Stearns (NYSE: BSC), just days after providing financial aid, which was backed by the Fed, ...
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Bleak House: Despair On The 52-Week Low List (GE)(VZ)(GOOG)(C)

Posted: March 16, 2008 at 11:49 am

Those rummaging through the garbage of 52-week low lists are usually bottom-fishing investors or desperate CEOs. But, the list is so broad that it has become a tableau of the ...
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Goldman Sachs (GS) Earnings May Crush Wall St. Further

Posted: March 16, 2008 at 7:37 am

Shares in Goldman Sachs (NYSE GS): are only down about 12% over the last six months. That is about the same as the S&P. But, shares in peers Morgan Stanley ...
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Bear Stearns (BSC) Investor Loses $800 Million

Posted: March 16, 2008 at 5:51 am

Joe Lewis, a British billionaire, has lost $800 million from investing in Bear Stearns (NYSE: BSC). Lewis has almost 10% of the brokerage company's shares.According to the Times 'The huge ...
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Bear Stearns To Address Current Situation (BSC, JPM)

Posted: March 14, 2008 at 10:59 am

The Bear Stearns Companies Inc. (NYSE: BSC) announced that will host a conference call today at 12:30 P.M. EST.  The stock is now down more than $23.00 to under $34.00 ...
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JP Morgan & NY Fed Try to Rescue Bear Stearns (BSC, JPM)

Posted: March 14, 2008 at 8:36 am

Bear Stearns Co. (NYSE: BSC) is getting a temporary reprieve this morning.  JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) and the New York Fed have provided liquidity financing for 28 days to the ...
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The 52-Week Low Club (CHTR)(SIGM)(GM)(F)(BSC)(VM)

Posted: March 13, 2008 at 2:58 pm

Virgin Mobile (NYSE VM) Quaterly loss takes shares down. Falls to $1.90 from 52-week high of $15.69.Bear Stearns (NYSE: BSC) Market still believes that company has severe balance sheet problems. ...
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Goldman Sachs Pans Financials (FNM, FRE, MI, JPM, BSC, LEH, MER, WM)

Posted: February 25, 2008 at 9:04 am

Goldman Sachs has made some key downgrades in the financial sector today.  The firm has cut both Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) and Freddie mac (NYSE: FRE) from an already "neutral" ...
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Beating Down Investors In Auction-Rate Securities

Posted: February 15, 2008 at 6:36 am

Auction-rate securities are short-term investments which are often pitched as an alternative to cash. Investors look to them as "safe haven" instruments where they can put money and earn a ...
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Zacks Fund Survey: A Win For Bear Stearns, A Blow To Morgan Keegan

Posted: February 10, 2008 at 12:18 pm

The mutual fund industry is particularly brutal because each fund is graded every day on performance. The cruelty of that system hit small finance house Morgan Keegan especially hard in ...
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Jim Cramer’s Stimulus Package & Turnaround Stocks

Posted: January 24, 2008 at 6:22 pm

On tonight's MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer noted that selling stocks today isn't a good idea and that this will be good for retail stocks and others too.  You ...
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The Write-Down Guessing Game

Posted: January 14, 2008 at 5:37 am

CNBC reported that Citigroup (C) could have a $24 billion write-off. The source for that report is not clear. Last week, Goldman Sachs said Citi might have to take a ...
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Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (BSC, CAL, DELL, ESRX, HON, ILMN, NUAN, SPW, STM, AU, DROOY, GFI, GBN, HMY)

Posted: January 11, 2008 at 7:31 am

These are not the only big analysts calls this Friday morning, but these are the ones that 24/7WallSt.com is focusing on this morning:Bear Stearns (BSC) raised to Buy at Merrill ...
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