WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve's unprecedented intervention on behalf of Bear Stearns Cos. was intended to ease fallout from the credit crunch, but experts fear it augurs more government bailouts as ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of Bear Stearns Cos Inc rose nearly 5 percent on Friday on another round of takeover talk about the Wall Street investment bank. Bear Stearns declined to comment. Sign up ...

A report by the Securities and Exchange Commission's inspector general offers new insights into what the agency's enforcement director told Stephen Cutler, general counsel for JPMorgan Chase, on the ...

The 2007 implosion of two Bear Stearns hedge funds that invested in risky mortgage bonds led to the wider crash of the financial system, and as it turns out years later, a fairly sizable and eyebrow ...

News that JPMorgan Chase & Co. and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York teamed up to throw a lifeline to Bear Stearns Cos. weighed heavily on financial stocks Friday. The news ended days of ...

Bear Stearns was the most exposed to risky bets on the loans; it is now the first major bank to be undone by that market's collapse. But the fact that a major investment bank could reach the verge of ...

(CNN) — Many Americans shrugged off the implosion of a pair of overleveraged Bear Stearns hedge funds in 2007. Stocks were at record highs, after all. But later it became apparent that those ...

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Bear Stearns Cos. BSC department heads met with officials at J.C. Flowers & Co. LLC and JPMorgan Chase & Co. JPM on Saturday to give an overview of their business operations, including headcount and ...