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1. • • One of the oldest and toughest investment banks on Wall Street, Bear Stearns survived the Great Depression and the dot-com bubble, but was the first to go down in America's financial meltdown.
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   What happened to Bear Stearns?

   • The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. was an American investment bank, securities trading, and brokerage firm that failed in 2008 as part of the global financial crisis and recession. After its closure it was subsequently sold to JPMorgan Chase.

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   Why did Bear Stearns run out of cash?

   • The smallest investment bank on Wall Street had survived the Great Depression, Black Monday and the September 11 terror attacks. But by March 2008, clients and trading partners were bolting the firm because it had made huge bets on what turned out to be toxic mortgages. In the span of just weeks, Bear Stearns would run out of cash.

   The stunning downfall of Bear Stearns and its bridge-playing CEO

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   Why did JPMorgan buy Bear Stearns?

   • The Bear Stearns deal was meant to shore up financial markets and promote stability in a system increasingly recognized as unstable since the middle of 2007. In March 2008, the Federal Reserve agreed to lend up to $30 billion to JPMorgan Chase so they could buy Bear Stearns. JPMorgan did so; paying only $10 a share for the ailing investment bank.

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   Is Bear Stearns a leveraged credit investment?

   • The strategy employed by the Bear Stearns funds was actually quite simple and would be best classified as being a leveraged credit investment. In fact, it is formulaic in nature and is a common strategy in the hedge fund universe:

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   Did Bear Stearns survive the Great Depression?

   • Editor’s Note: This story originally published on March 16, 2018. Bear Stearns was on fire. And its colorful chairman, Jimmy Cayne, was playing cards. The smallest investment bank on Wall Street had survived the Great Depression, Black Monday and the September 11 terror attacks.

   The stunning downfall of Bear Stearns and its bridge-playing CEO

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   How did Bear Stearns impact the banking system?

   • With Bear Stearns, there was not an immediate impact on the banking system. And the fact that there was an arrangement to keep it going, it was not forced into bankruptcy, I think insulated the financial shock, the repercussions that you later saw with Lehman Brothers.

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   The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. was an American investment bank, securities trading, and brokerage firm that failed in 2008 as part of the global financial crisis and recession. After its closure it was subsequently sold to JPMorgan Chase.

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   Sep 30, 2018 · The collapse of Bear Stearns in 2008 was stunning, both for how fast it happened and because Jimmy Cayne, who had led the bank through years of success, was apparently asleep at the wheel....

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   Five years ago this week, Bear Stearns was sold to JPMorgan Chase at a fire-sale price, after the overnight financing keeping the investment bank afloat dried up.

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   May 24, 2024 · Bear Stearns was an investment bank that collapsed during the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008. Read what happened after the Bear Stearns bailout.

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   Mar 16, 2018 · Bear Stearns was on fire. And its colorful chairman, Jimmy Cayne, was playing cards. The smallest investment bank on Wall Street had survived the Great Depression, Black Monday and the...

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   No other investment bank was getting the discount window open for them. So to single them out, in a sense, was to virtually assign them to a death sentence. And of course, that's what happened...

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   Apr 27, 2021 · Bear Stearns was an investment bank that collapsed during the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008. Read what happened after the Bear Stearns bailout.