US investment bank Bear Stearns

Bear Stearns, it should be remembered, had only $300 billion in assets in 2006. One general way to protect the Fed against spurious attacks on its authority is to make clear that quantified cost-benefit is not required for its prudential standard setting or its designation of other banking firms as systemically ...

“In Panama [Trump] got the credit of—they got a—Bear Stearns to issue a bond by telling Bear Stearns that they'd sold a bunch of units to a bunch of Russian gangsters,” said Simpson. That sort of blackmail-worthy material might be available to Russians across a wide range of Trump's overseas projects.

Americans looked on helplessly as big banks like Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers collapsed and other big banks and institutions, such as AIG, appeared to only be surviving thanks to taxpayer support. On March 2, 2009, the government gave AIG a $30 billion lifeline prior to AIG's fourth quarter 2008 ...

This event parallels Bear Stearns's sudden collapse on March 14, 2008, which was the first nail that was driven into the 2002 Bull Market's coffin. The second nail in the 2009 Bull's coffin was also the second nail in the 2002 Bull's coffin. The chart below depicts the top ten four-day outflow periods for the ...

Last year, 2017, was a not a normal year for stocks. Stocks as an asset class are not meant to go straight up without even a 1% pullback. But that is precisely what happened for nearly an entire year. Now that massive market rig is over. And anyone who continues to invest as though it's 2017 is going to get ...

I have a Bear Stearns shirt that I purchased 10 years ago, following the collapse of the investment bank. I bought it as a novelty item as its collapse would be a once in a lifetime event I thought to myself. Little did I know many firms would suffer similar fates. Bear Stearns' bailout by the Federal Reserve (Fed) ...

(Kitco News) - Current market conditions and gold prices suggest the metal is about to breakout, says one former Bear Stearns analyst. “[I]t looks to me like it could now get really exciting for gold bulls,” Jesse Felder, publisher of the Felder Report investment newsletter, said in a report released Thursday.

On December 14, 2006, Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns reported huge earnings, helping push major US indexes toward record numbers. Fewer than two years later, both investment banks collapsed and their stocks became virtually worthless. JPMorgan bought Bear Stearns for $2 a share in March ...