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Bear Stearns pair to face charges?

Two traders behind the Bear Stearns bank collapse are facing fraud charges

Lehman: Is this a Bear Stearns replay?

All eyes are on the US bank Lehamn Brothers. And people are asking whether this is the next Bear Stearns.

Feeding the bears

A former Fed official Vincent Reinhart has slammed the Fed's bailout of Bear Stearns, describing it as the "worst policy decision in a generation"

Who's to blame for Bear Stearns? It's the media's fault

Who is to blame for Bear Stearns? The company says it's the media's fault

The Bear Stearns fallout and a solution

Shockwaves from the US Government backed sale of Bear Stearns continue with the Senate launching a probe into how much risk is passed on to taxpayers

The Fed, the Bear and moral hazard

The Fed's bailout of Bear Stearns raises questions about moral hazard.

SOX and the Bear deal

Sarbanes-Oxley could not stop Bear Stearns from imploding. It did not protect investors. And the investment bank's implosion has raised serious questions about the Securiities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Reserve

Bear market danger signals

The market s down, gold and oil have hit record prices. What are the danger signals in a bear market?

Bear hunting

Bear Stearns' annus horribilus has just got worse with Barclays Bank suing the Wall Street firm, claiming it used two hedge funds that collapsed last summer as places to unload troubled assets.

Bear Stearns and China Citic

So Bear Stearns shares are up after it was revealed that China Citic Group wants to buy a stake in the troubled US investment bank. But what about the insider trading risk when you have an entity owned by the Chinese government playing the market?

Bear markets and the Rumsfeld effect

You know things are really looking bad on the markets what the central banks start pumping in money to ease the liquidity crunch. But it s a band-aid solution because no-one where the risks are. It s a bit like Donald Rumsfeld s unknown unknowns . Do the banks know something we don t?

Subprime woes continue

The market seems to be bracing itself for the next shoe to drop with the two Bear Stearns hedge funds which had bet big on subprime mortgage sector now virtually worthless. As fed chief Ben Bernanke has indicated, things are going to get worse before they get better.