Investors should bear two things in mind in light of Finra's examinations.
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Firms with fewer than 500 employees would bear two-thirds of the job losses and more than half of the lost sales, it says.
They conceive and bear two sons, Cain and Abel.
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He was handed the reins at Bear only two months before its implosion (though he was one of Jimmy Cayne's top lieutenants before that).
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At Duluth's Lake Superior Zoo, where a group of barnyard animals drowned in the flood, and a polar bear and two seals temporarily escaped, 200 volunteers dug out exhibits from mudslides and cleaned out debris on Saturday.
The one criminal case connected to the crash, the trial of two Bear Stearns portfolio managers, ended in an acquittal.
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This crisis brewed in two Bear Stearns real estate hedge funds, which eventually blew up and contributed to the cause of the crisis.
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The money markets' difficulties began in July 2007, when two Bear Stearns hedge funds revealed the damage done to their portfolios by subprime mortgages.
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In another case of alleged financial wrongdoing of two Bear Stearns executives Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, the government relied on emails to support their case.
Just nine months earlier, Cayne was on the bridge circuit when two Bear Stearns hedge funds collapsed from significant losses on subprime mortgage securities, igniting the crisis on Wall Street.
Lest we forget, the collapse of the two Bear Stearns funds in June 2007 was the first shockwave in the eventual financial crisis that almost took down the entire economy along with the retirement and life savings of millions of Americans.
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The brokers may have been pledged collateral against their hedge-fund loans but, as Merrill Lynch recently discovered in its dealings with two Bear Stearns hedge funds, it may not be possible to sell that collateral for anything like the current market price.
To illustrate the point, I have drawn lessons learned from two companies (Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers) that were misaligned from a pay and performance perspective, and two companies (JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley) that were relatively aligned.
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The answer lies in the impact two severe bear markets had on both large-cap growth and value issues in the past decade.
After two brutal bear markets (2001-2002 and 2008-2009) retirement plan investors in 401(k) plans saw much of their lifetime retirement savings get walloped.
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Two full-fledged recessions in the economy in the subsequent eight years, two severe bear markets, with the market losing 50% of its value in each.
Along the way, he kept a lookout for financial shenanigans, like those that made him a bear on AAI Pharmaceuticals two years before its 2005 bankruptcy.
First, the current correction comes on the heels of two severe bear markets in the past decade: The Internet Bubble of 2000-2002 and Credit Crisis of 2007-2009.
And Chicago really would be exceptional if it could work out how to turn itself around, implement its ideas and see them bear fruit all within two years.
One of the easiest timing strategies imaginable, one that can be implemented in less then a minute by anybody with access to price charts on free web portals, could have kept us on the sidelines for most of two big bear markets of the 2000s.
The SEC will also expand an investigation begun earlier this year into short selling in shares of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, two investment banks that have been forced out of existence (in Bear Stearns case, by way of a rescue by JPMorgan Chase, and in Lehman's, by bankruptcy) in the wake of bear raids on their stocks.
Those who had been calling for a bear market for the last two years were probably the only ones who were not surprised.
Of the two types of bear, the brown bear and the grizzly, one kills you and the other kills you and eats you.
Fears of widespread redemptions and deepening losses spooked the mortgage securities markets Wednesday after Bear Stearns told investors in two troubled hedge funds that there was "very little value" left for them.
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