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16 Jan 2009, 4:31 am
The bankruptcies and buyouts of Wall Street giants Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch, and the massive layoffs implemented by survivors [...] [read post]
14 Jan 2009, 9:00 am
  Chairman Cox was challenged for attending a birthday party during the weekend of the Bear Stearns buyout while officials from Treasury and the Fed helped hammer out a deal. [read post]
13 Jan 2009, 12:13 pm
That one was beyond right or wrong--it was incoherent.Flash forward to Bear Stearns. [read post]
13 Jan 2009, 8:23 am
Richard Fuld and James Cayne, the bosses of Lehman Bros. and Bear Stearns, who presided over the extinction of their fine old firms. [read post]
12 Jan 2009, 10:01 pm
But General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner appears to be a winner, even though those two Bear Stearns executives probably aren't. [read post]
12 Jan 2009, 1:57 pm
The lawsuit claims Bear Stearns, which had been one of the country’s biggest investment institutions, and the individual defendants broke …Read More... [read post]
12 Jan 2009, 5:43 am
The venerable independent investment banks Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns no longer exist. [read post]
9 Jan 2009, 9:00 am
  With Lehman bankrupt, Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch reduced to subsidiaries of commercial banks, and Goldman and Morgan Stanley converting to commercial banks (while struggling to remain independent), investment banks as a separate class of financial institutions have disappeared. [read post]
8 Jan 2009, 1:08 am
Resurrecting corporate America after the failure of governanceBricker & Eckler LLP"AIG, Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers et al. are the result of a fundamental flaw in governance of corporate America: failure to provide independent oversight of management in the governance of these organizations. [read post]
8 Jan 2009, 12:12 am
  The extent and magnitude of the problems from just this one investment structure (among other things, it played a role in Bear Stearns’ demise) helps put some context around the problems now besetting the global financial marketplace. [read post]
6 Jan 2009, 1:08 am
And those events came after a raft of prior financial shocks, including the collapse of Bear Stearns, the seizure of the auction rate securities market, and the disintegration of U.S. residential real estate market. [read post]
6 Jan 2009, 12:15 am
The three decisions in Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, and Wachovia confirm, however, that courts will nonetheless actively scrutinize quickly made decisions under well-established principles before giving target directors the benefit of the business judgment rule. [read post]
31 Dec 2008, 9:00 pm
Actually, Dear Reader, I imagine many of you, as I, will be just as pleased to kiss 2008 goodbye: The Dow ended the year down 33.8%, its worst annual showing since 1931--and 28 of the 30 stocks (all but Wal-Mart and McDonalds) were down by more than 10%; The more representative S&P 500 was down 38.5%; The famously tech-centric NASDAQ was down 40.5%; The small-stock Russell 2000 was down 34.8%; The FTSE 100 declined 30.9% on the year, its worst annual drop since it … [read post]
31 Dec 2008, 4:50 pm
The unthinkable has happened with the fallen pillars of Bear Stearns, Lehman, Merrill Lynch, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and AIG. [read post]
29 Dec 2008, 10:01 pm
Friends who are closely involved in the Lehman Brothers case have confided to me that Lehman CEO Richard Fuld never in his wildest imagination thought, after the precedent of Bear Stearns, that the Fed and the U.S. [read post]
29 Dec 2008, 3:08 pm
Cox, criticized for his allegedly minor role in the government's bailout of Bear Stearns, had been reluctant to call Lehman. [read post]
29 Dec 2008, 1:23 am
" More21) Bill Miller comes up short: The fund manager's contrarian bets on Bear Stearns, AIG and Freddie Mac cost his investors plenty. [read post]
27 Dec 2008, 10:01 pm
The major creditors of the fund included Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers, all of which went on to lend and invest recklessly and, to one degree or another, pay the consequences. [read post]