Bove speculated that the timing of Cruz's departure suggests there might be a sizeable write-off coming for the firm, reminiscent of the scenario that played out with Warren Spector's exit from Bear Stearns (nyse: BSC - news - people ) (See " Bear Claws Out Co-President").
Bove speculated that the timing of Cruz's departure suggests there might be a sizeable write-off coming for the firm, reminiscent of the scenario that played out with Warren Spector's exit from Bear Stearns (See " Bear Claws Out Co-President").
It made gains throughout the severe 2000-2002 bear market, and has significantly out-performed the market over the last 11 years.
The ProShares VIX Short-Term ETF (VIXY) is up 11.02% this week as investors bet on wild swings in the bull-bear battle playing out on Wall Street at the moment.
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Despite the monetary stimulus from the Federal Reserve and the fiscal stimulus from the federal government, Weiss foresees a long, drawn-out bear market similar to the one Japan has been in since late 1989.
Then came the first quarter of 2008, the market turbulence that washed out Bear Stearns--and a pink slip.
It is true that the two men's tax-cut proposals bear out the contrast Mr Bush is trying to make.
But the subsequent cyclical bear market turned out to be the beginning of a 17-year sideways secular bear market.
In the new study, scientists studied mitochondrial DNA extracted from well-dated fossil bear skeletons to work out how population size changed over time.
Recent reports from three lobbies for foreign businesses, the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, the European Chamber of Commerce in China and the US-China Business Council, bear out this gloomy view.
Still, there's a common denominator of exultant, almost dervishy gyration, along with an acting-out of aggression that can bear a startling resemblance to street fighting.
The last time it reached 40% was in October, 2007, as the market topped out into the 2007-2009 bear market.
The results of planet-finding programmes so far seem to bear this out.
Stats from the low-cost accommodation specialist budgetplaces.com bear this out.
That was most recently seen in the way the stock market topped out into the 2007-2009 bear market prior to the 2008-2009 recession, while economists and the Fed were still saying the problems in the housing sector and sub-prime mortgages would be confined to housing and would not affect the overall economy.
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Crime levels don't quite bear out Sasol boss Pieter Cox's home-front optimism.
Now beer store shelves are stocked with rye beers, and their all-too-easy puns (Bear Republic's Ryevalry comes out this fall), as this stalwart grain, makes a new tradition of its own.
Bear's shares initially jumped on news of the bail-out but crashed after the market opened on Friday.
Walking by a fast-moving creek on the property, the 60-year-old Duluth native pointed out where the polar bear, Berlin, sought to escape rising water by moving to higher ground outside his cage.
Riccardo, a sell-side analyst at Bear Stearns, thinks Prempro sales have already bottomed out, and that the changes to the label won't further hurt sales.
For now, the focus of the manhunt remains on Big Bear and the surrounding San Bernardino Mountains, where Dorner's burned-out pickup was found a day earlier.
The brown bear had become dangerous because he regularly sought out food in inhabited areas -- including a school -- and had started following people during the day, the Swiss Federal Environment Office said.
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For now, the focus of the manhunt remains on Big Bear and the surrounding San Bernardino Mountains, where Dorner's burned out-pickup was found a day earlier.
If you take a step back and look at the SPY chart on a daily and even weekly time frame, the obvious pattern that jumps out at you is a wide, but well-defined, bear flag.
Thanks in part to the credit crunch, potential rival bidders dropped out of the race earlier this year: Gerardin said that Britain's Barclays had faced serious concerns over potential wider financing issues and pulled out, while the fire-sale acquisition of beleaguered prime broker Bear Stearns meant JPMorganChase no longer needed to knock at Bank of America's door.
Thanks in part to the credit crunch, potential rival bidders dropped out of the race earlier this year: Gerardin said that Britain's Barclays had faced serious concerns over potential wider financing issues and pulled out, while the fire-sale acquisition of beleaguered prime broker Bear Stearns meant JPMorganChase (nyse: JPM - news - people ) no longer needed to knock at Bank of America's door.
Having held out for so long, they could not bear the thought that their decade-long struggle had been for nothing.
During both periods there were strong cyclical bull markets every few years, followed each time by a cyclical bear market that kept the market moving sideways, unable to break out into a long-term uptrend.
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The search for Christopher Dorner had three states and Mexico on alert before shifting Thursday afternoon to the snowy mountains around Big Bear Lake, about 80 miles east of Los Angeles, where police found his burned-out pickup truck.
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