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Jim Cramer (Kind Of) Owns Up To His "Bear Stearns Is Fine" Comments

Huffington Post | Posted 03.23.2008 | Business

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Jim Cramer became a feast for late night comedy after he called Bear Stearns "fine" a week before its spectacular collapse. Cramer appeared on CNN's ...

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B-School Grads Shaken Up By Bear Collapse

BusinessWeek | Alison Damast | Posted 03.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Career Services, JP Morgan, Bear Stearsn BSC, Starting Salaries, Business School, Consultants, Business School Grads, Recruiters, Financial-Services Sector, Business News

The stunning collapse and fire sale of investment house Bear Stearns (BSC)--a major employer of business graduates--has added another worry to an alre...

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Stocks Cap Volatile Week With Big Gains

AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 03.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Federal Reserve, JP Morgan, Bear Stearns, Dow Jones, Wall Street, Good Friday, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Business News

NEW YORK — Wall Street capped a week of remarkable volatility with a big advance Thursday that left stocks higher for the week but didn't silenc...

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Good Luck, Joseph Lewis

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 03.20.2008 | Business

Read More: JP Morgan, Bear Stearns, Investments, Two-Buck Chuck, Google, Bear Stearns JP Morgan, Joseph Lewis, Business News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

Good Luck to you, Joseph Lewis. It looks like you've got the will, the spunk and the resources to fight the inevitable hand of fate. And who knows? You may succeed. One of us losers has to get lucky some time, I guess.

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Why is Bear Stearns Trading Above Deal Price?

David Neubert | Posted 03.19.2008 | Business

Read More: The Panelist, Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan, Bear Stearns, Hedge Funds, Hedge Fund Traders, Bear Stearns Preferred Stock, Business News
David Neubert

I've been getting the inside scoop from some hedgefund traders (who always request to remain anonymous).

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Bear Stearns As Sacrifical Lamb

Vince Farrell | Posted 03.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Carlos Gutierrez, JP Morgan, Stanley Kubrick, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Secretary of Commerce, Henry Paulson, Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, Bear Stearns, Subprime Mortgages, Jimmy Cayne, Glass-Steagall, Collaterized Bonds, Business News
Vince Farrell

Maybe Bear deserved to fail, or maybe it was just bad luck to be in the cross-hairs at the wrong time. But I can see how stockholders and employees would be enraged.

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A Note To the Employees Of Bear Stearns

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 03.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Investment Banks, JP Morgan, Bear Stearns, JP Morgan Buys Bear Stearns, Credit Crunch, Business News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

I'm sure your eyes goggled when you saw it too. JP Morgan paid a couple or three hundred million for a company worth incalculably more. It's stunning.

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Cramer Called Bear Stearns "Fine" Just A Week Ago

CNBC | Posted 03.17.2008 | Business

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What a difference a week makes. On Tuesday, March 11, Jim Cramer assured "Mad Money" viewers that Bear Stearns was doing fine. Specifically, he remark...

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Billionaire Lewis Loses $1.16B On Bear Stakes

Bloomberg | Katherine Burton and Sree Vidya Bhaktavatsalam | Posted 03.17.2008 | Business

Read More: JP Morgan Chase, Bear Stearns Sale, JP Morgan, Bear Stearns Purchase, Bear Stearns and Mortgage Crisis, Bear Stearns Bailout, Barrow Hanley Mewhinney, Joseph Lewis, Barrow Hanley, Bear Stearns Collapse, Bear Stearns, Bear Stearns CEO, Bear Stearns Buyout, Bear Stearns and JPMorgan Chase, Business News

Joseph Lewis, the billionaire investor who bought 9.4 percent of Bear Stearns Cos. last year, lost $1.16 billion on his stake after JPMorgan Chase & C...

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A Big Bronx Cheer For Pathetic Bear Stearns

Henry Blodget | Posted 03.14.2008 | Business

Read More: Fed, Bear Stearns, JP Morgan, Bear Stearns Alan Schwartz, Bear Stearns Bailout, Alan Schwartz, Bear Stearns Jimmy Cayne, Jimmy Cayne, Business News
Henry Blodget

Get ready. Now that Bear Stearns has been forced to run hat in hand to the Fed and whimper that it's "too big to fail," the mewling is about to begin.

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Big Hedge Funds, Led By JP Morgan, Grow By 30 Percent

Financial Times | Anuj Gangahar | Posted 03.06.2008 | Business

Read More: Arbitrage, JP Morgan, Hedge Funds, Highbridge Capital, Absolute Return, Business News

Assets at the largest US hedge funds grew by more than a third last year, even though three of the 10 largest funds lost a combined $24bn in assets th...

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Wall Street Gears For New Pain

Wall Street Journal | LINGLING WEI, RANDALL SMITH | Posted 03.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Citigroup, U.S. Economy, Banks, Subprime Loans, Real Estate, Credit Crunch, Subprime Shakedown, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearsn, Subprime Loan Crisis, J.P. Morgan, Commercial Real Estate, Business News

After suffering a beating from their exposure to home loans, banks and securities firms are about to take their lumps from office towers, hotels and o...

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Help! I'm being hounded by Chase, Part Deux: A New Beginning

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 02.27.2008 | Business

Read More: JP Morgan Chase, Chase Bank, JP Morgan, Credit Cards, U.S. Postal Service, Business News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

I just had what I believe to be a very satisfactory discussion with a nice woman who has not yet gone postal at the Postal Service.

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Regulators Eye Possible Insider Trading At Banks

Wall Street Journal | MARK MAREMONT and SUSANNE CRAIG | Posted 01.14.2008 | Business

Read More: Investment Banks, Rural Cellular, J.P. Morgan, Insider Trading, J.P. Morgan Chase, Rural Cellular Insider Trading, Verizon, Business News

In the spring of last year, two investment arms of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. began accumulating shares in Rural Cellular Corp., a small Minnesota provid...

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Tony Blair: Peace Maker or Deal Maker?

Barry Lando | Posted 01.10.2008 | Politics

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Barry Lando

When Blair's diplomatic appointment was announced, many questioned his ability to act as an honest broker in the region. Blair's million dollar job with J.P Morgan provides skeptics with further ammunition.

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Landmark Explores Sale Of Weather Channel

Reuters | Paul Thomasch | Posted 01.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Landmark, Landmark Communications, NBC Universal, JP Morgan, Ge, Lehman Brothers, Weather Channel, Business News

Media company Landmark Communications said on Thursday it was exploring the sale of its publishing and television businesses including cable network T...

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Dogs Of The Dow

24/7 Wall Street | John C. Ogg | Posted 12.26.2007 | Business

Read More: General Electric, Citigroup, JP Morgan, AT&T, Ge, General Motors, Gm, Verizon, Unit Investment Trusts, Dogs of the Dow, Altria, Home Depot, Pfizer, Dupont, Business News

The Dogs of the Dow aren't necessarily the worst performers of the prior year, but they pay the highest the dividend yields. We wanted to review the ...

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J.P. Morgan Invests $200 Million In The Movies

Wall Street Journal | ROBIN SIDEL | Posted 12.03.2007 | Business

Read More: J.P. Morgan Movies, J.P. Morgan Investments, JP Morgan, J.P. Morgan Chase, Business News

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. is putting its money to work. After years of watching rival Wall Street firms plow their own cash into principal investments,...

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