Trading in Bear shares was so frantic that many didn't settle properly, and so Bear Stearns starting showing up on the New York Stock Exchange's daily list of stocks with high incidences of persistent trade settlement failures.
Many of my friends are stubbornly clinging to their bear stances, unwilling to give up on their pessimistic view of the market, but that could be a mistake.
Giving up on stocks after a prolonged bear market is nothing new.
For what this really does is removes much of the pressure that the Troika (ECB, EU Commission and IMF) can bring to bear on the Greek Government to just shut up and force austerity down the throats of the citizenry.
In the wake of the Bear Stearns blow-up, rule makers will put renewed emphasis on the cash positions of major financial institutions--a traditional gauge of a bank's ability to weather crisis.
With few exceptions, even mutual funds that have historically held up well in bear markets have been battered by the recent upheaval on Wall Street.
Despite his conviction that stocks will remain in a bear market until a retest of the lows and a strong move up on high volume, Martchev's portfolio is currently 70% long on stocks.
The weakness in output growth at home will open up a growing margin of spare capacity that will over time bear down on inflation.
There are economic reasons why BABs underwriting fees may have started out high and then come down: underwriters took on risk with a new product and had to bear start-up costs and devote resources to educate investors for their initial offerings.
And it was a bear to lug it up the 27 steps while balancing my lap top and carry-on bag.
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Auto lending again has juiced that sector, and those low interest rates are lulling borrowers to take on whatever their credit can bear, but that jig ultimately will be up.
Lord Turner warns that the process of businesses, households, banks and the government trying to cut their big debts built up in the boom years, what is known as deleveraging, may bear down on the British economy's ability to grow for many years yet.
Despite the recent run up in the market, the 2007-2009 bear market has left an indelible scar on investors.
Dimon was speaking at a Council on Foreign Relations event today when the topic of the Bear Stearns acquisition came up.
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Panic after credit markets locked up on September when the Treasury Department incoherently let Lehman Brothers go after saving Bear Stearns.
And areas along the eastern side will bear the brunt of the wintry weather with more than 5cm, and possibly up to 15cm on high ground along the Pennines.
But those losses are more than made up for by profits on banks and the Federal Reserve's portfolios of assets from Bear Stearns and AIG.
We will not let up on our vigilance and observation to ensure that they continue to bring everything possible to bear to manage this spill response and to prevent damage to fragile ecosystems.
As we all know, the Queen is hung up on what her mirror tells her about getting old -- she can't bear being eclipsed in the beauty stakes by her stepdaughter Snow (Lily Collins, Phil's daughter).
They bear down particularly on the first cohorts of workers in the privatised schemes, who shoulder the start-up costs.
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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The news comes as brokerage firms post mixed results, with Bear Stearns announcing Thursday that it came short Wall Street's expectations (See "Fixed Income Bowls Over Bear"), as did Morgan Stanley on Wednesday (See "Morgan Stanley Can't Keep Up").
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