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...Some of these bonds were arranged by institutions that ran into trouble for their subprime exposure more than a decade ago such as Countrywide and Bear Stearns....
...All three had done much the same when their former employer sought to deny them a cut from their previous Bear Stearns deals....
...Here’s a trend we’d like to encourage… Ten years after consummating what is generally regarded as the worst merger in corporate history, former Time Warner AOL chief executive Jerry Levin has apologised...
...He added: “Not only the three companies I just mentioned but let’s hear publicly from Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, on and on.”...
...And today: to hire more than 750 new investment banking staff before the year is out, according to Barcap president Jerry del Missier....
...“Entering 2008, we identified a significant opportunity in the US, the biggest opportunity we’d ever seen to reposition Barclays Capital in the US,” says Jerry del Missier, BarCap president....
...Few companies have ever been as focused on profit as Lehman Brothers – or Bear Stearns, where the sign “Let’s make nothing but money” hung over the trading floor....
...The complaint has been filed in order to commence court proceedings against Bear Stearns....
...banking analyst at Goldman) - Bank of America employs at least two “Change Consultants” at $60,000 a pop and one “Senior Change Analyst” ($62,000) - Yahoo employees are generally unimpressed with CEO Jerry...
...While discussion of Mr Paulson’s tenure will always dwell on the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the Treasury secretary’s supporters point to failures that were averted – including Bear Stearns, Fannie and...
...After Bear Stearns’ collapse in the spring, Lehman sought out partners ranging from General Electric to HSBC and Morgan Stanley. Even in September Lehman insiders say a deal could have been done....
...Robert Peck, an analyst at Bear Stearns, did not believe any of the options were viable, and that a combination with Microsoft was the most likely outcome, as Yahoo combined with Microsoft’s MSN would have...
...So until the misfiring, jerry-built structure of securitised, market-priced, semi-automated credit is repaired in a systematic way by people who know what they are doing, there really is no choice but to...
...with which fear can spread – nobody has to have an account at Bear Stearns, nobody has to lend them money....
...● In Ocean’s 13 (2007) producer Jerry Weintraub used his own Maserati Quattroporte as a prop, pushing up demand for the car. The Quattroporte also appears in the hit HBO series, Entourage....
...Bear Stearns was 1.4 per cent lower at $147.95. Merrill Lynch said it would delay selling $400m in assets seized from a hedge fund managed by Bear Stearns....
...That said, analysts at Bear Stearns still believe Barclays will move to complete the ABN deal....
...At Bear Stearns, there are numerous new hiring programmes, including one that places new college graduates in the Financial Analytics and Structured Transactions group for one to two years instead of in...
...Mamoun Tazi, analyst at Bear Stearns in London, says that when the exchanges demutualised, they may not have realised the consequences of relinquishing control. Privately, many bankers concur....
...Hayden, Senior Managing Director, Bear Stearns Co. F....
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