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Good Luck, Joseph Lewis

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


<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.

Why is Bear Stearns Trading Above Deal Price?

David Neubert | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


David Neubert

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

Bear Stearns As Sacrifical Lamb

Vince Farrell | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


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.

A Note To the Employees Of Bear Stearns

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


<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.

Cramer Called Bear Stearns "Fine" Just A Week Ago

CNBC | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


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...

Billionaire Lewis Loses $1.16B On Bear Stakes

Bloomberg | Katherine Burton and Sree Vidya Bhaktavatsalam | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


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...

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

Financial Times | Anuj Gangahar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


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...

Wall Street Gears For New Pain

Wall Street Journal | LINGLING WEI, RANDALL SMITH | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


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...

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

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


<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.

Regulators Eye Possible Insider Trading At Banks

Wall Street Journal | MARK MAREMONT and SUSANNE CRAIG | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


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...

Landmark Explores Sale Of Weather Channel

Reuters | Paul Thomasch | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


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

Dogs Of The Dow

24/7 Wall Street | John C. Ogg | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


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 ...

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

Wall Street Journal | ROBIN SIDEL | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


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,...