NEW YORK -- Bear Stearns Cos. shareholders on Thursday approved JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s $2.2 billion buyout of the investment bank whose wagers on subprime mortgages made it the largest corporate casualty of the global credit crisis. The widely ...

JPMorgan Chase & Co’s (JPM) biggest test in integrating Bear Stearns Cos (BSC) may be making sure there’s still something left to join together. An exodus of Bear employees, who could take their unsettled clients with them, may further erode what value is left at the fallen investment bank. “The peo ...

The Ledger - NEW YORK | Wall Street ended a temperamental session widely mixed Monday after investors grappled with JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s government-backed buyout of the stricken investment bank Bear Stearns Cos. The Dow Jones industrials recovered from an ...

Forbes - Wall Street ended a temperamental session widely mixed Monday after investors grappled with JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s government-backed buyout of the stricken investment bank Bear Stearns Cos. The Dow Jones industrials recovered from an initial drop of ...

Boston Globe - NEW YORK— Wall Street ended a temperamental session widely mixed Monday after investors grappled with JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s government-backed buyout of the stricken investment bank Bear Stearns Cos. The Dow Jones industrials recovered from an ...

Philadelphia Inquirer - The collapse of investment bank Bear Stearns Cos. Inc. into a competitor's arms showed that Wall Street's troubles remain severe. But the sale of Bear Stearns to JPMorgan Chase & Co. - with Federal Reserve backing - at a steep discount does not mean ...

‘bear stearns employees’ video: NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co, which on Sunday agreed to acquire struggling investment bank Bear Stearns Cos for just $240 million, expects to cut about half of Bear’s 14,000 employees, business news channel CNBC reported on Monday, citing… Reuters - read m ...

ABC News - NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street ended a temperamental session widely mixed Monday after investors grappled with JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s government-backed buyout of the stricken investment bank Bear Stearns & Co. The Dow Jones industrials recovered from ...

Chicago Tribune - NEW YORK - Wall Street ended a temperamental session widely mixed Monday after investors grappled with JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s government-backed buyout of the stricken investment bank Bear Stearns Cos. The Dow Jones industrials recovered from an ...

International Herald Tribune - NEW YORK : JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s cut-rate buyout of Bear Stearns Co. drove some jittery investors to dump shares of major U.S. investment banks and left others worrying who is next. The federal government offered reassurances to a veering Wall ...