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  2. Sep 22, 2024 · The company was ultimately sold to JPMorgan Chase for $10 a share, well below its value before the crisis. The collapse of Bear Stearns precipitated a wider collapse in the investment banking...

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Bear_StearnsBear Stearns - Wikipedia

    Bear Stearns was founded as an equity trading house on May 1, 1923, by Joseph Ainslie Bear, Robert B. Stearns and Harold C. Mayer with $500,000 in capital (equivalent to $8,941,406 in 2023). Internal tensions quickly arose among the three founders.

  4. Mar 17, 2008 · JPMorgan Chase agreed on Sunday to buy Bear Stearns, the stricken US investment bank, for about $236m in shares in a deal that puts an end to Bear’s 85 years of independence and highlights the...

  5. Jan 19, 2018 · By Saturday, J.P. Morgan Chase concluded that Bear Stearns was worth only $236 million. Desperately seeking a solution that would stop Bear’s failure from spreading to other over-leveraged...

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  6. Jan 8, 2015 · Bear Stearns had a market value of $3.5 billion on Friday, and $20 billion in January 2007. The Federal Reserve is guaranteeing $30 billion in the bank’s “less-liquid assets”—mostly...

  7. Mar 14, 2024 · Bear Stearns, a prominent global investment bank, met its demise during the 2008 financial crisis due to heavy exposure to toxic mortgage-backed securities. It was sold to JPMorgan Chase at a fraction of its pre-crisis value.

  8. Apr 27, 2021 · Learn how a deadly mix of greed and leverage cost investors millions with the collapse of Bear Stearns' hedge funds.

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