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      Posted by SoxFirst

      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.

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      Bear Stearns and China Citic

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      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?

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      Bear markets and the Rumsfeld effect

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      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?

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      Subprime woes continue

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      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.

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    SoxFirst

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    Leon Gettler is a blogger and senior business journalist at The Age, specializing on management issues. His latest book, Organisations Behaving Badly focuses on the forces that lead smart executives into making dumb decisions.

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