NEW YORK, March 24 (UPI) -- J.P. Morgan and Chase Co. upped its offer for Bear Stearns to $10 a share on rumors shareholders would vote down the $2 a share fire sale price.
WASHINGTON, March 21 (UPI) -- The top ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, Charles Grassley of Iowa, has asked members of his staff to investigate the Bear Stearns buyout.
NEW YORK, March 17 (UPI) -- J.P. Morgan's $2 a share purchase of troubled Bear Stearns over the weekend came with the aid of $30 billion in financing from the U.S. Federal Reserve.
NEW YORK, March 16 (UPI) -- J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. reached agreement to buy Bear Stearns Cos. for $2 a share, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.
NEW YORK, March 14 (UPI) -- Bear Stearns could not meet obligations Friday until a dramatic move kept the Wall Street investment bank afloat.
NEW YORK, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- James Cayne, Bear Stearns' chairman and chief executive under fire after the firm was scorched by the sour mortgage market, reportedly will step down as CEO.
BEIJING, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- U.S. securities firm Bear Stearns reached a pact Monday with Chinese investment bank Citic Securities that gives each financial entity a stake in the other.
NEW YORK, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Two Bear Stearns Cos. hedge funds involved in mortgage investments have filed for bankruptcy, court documents the U.S. investment bank filed said Wednesday.
IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 10 (UPI) -- A Bear Stearns & Co. unit is acquiring the wholesale sub-prime mortgage origination business of California's ECC Capital Corp. That's a business that creates mortgages for people with less than stellar credit, said ECC, which is a real estate investment t
NEW YORK, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- New York brokerage firm Bear Stearns is paying $250 million to settle a mutual fund investigation.