Bear Stearns, one of the five big Wall Street brokerages and among the biggest players in the once high-flying mortgage business, had to resort to a rescue Friday by the Federal Reserve, using JPMorgan Chase as its open door to the Fed's discount window.

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Bear Stearns (nyse: BSC - news - people ), one of the five big Wall Street brokerages and among the biggest players in the once high-flying mortgage business, had to resort to a rescue Friday by the Federal Reserve, using JPMorgan Chase (nyse: JPM - news - people ) as its open door to the Fed's discount window.

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