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    Bear Stearns & Co Page 1 of 10 Bear Stearns & Co Answer the following 10 questionsusing the financial statement data from Blockbuster Entertainment Corporation. Show your work (i.e.‚ note what numbers you’re using). On May 9‚ 1989‚ Bear Stearns & Co. issued a report on Blockbuster Entertainment Corp.‚ which is reproduced in part below. Blockbuster-Entertainment (Ticker symbol: BV‚ Price per share: $33 ½) increased owned and franchised video stores from 19 at the end of 1986 to 415 at December

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    SArajevo School of science and technology Bear Stearns Collapse 2007 A short analysis ISMAR HOTA Table of Contents Introduction 3 Literature Review 3 Methodology 4 Analysis 5 Introduction 5 About Bear Stearns 6 The Culture at Bear Stearns 6 The Collapse of Bear Sterns 7 The Ethical Issues behind the Bear Stearns Collapse 8 What are subprime mortgages and its Ethical Failures? 8 The Lack of Corporate Governance at Bear Sterns 9 Moral Hazard at Bear Stearns 10 Non Ethical Conduct of the Regulators

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    Bear Stearns Bailout

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    Bear Stearns Bailout “The Fed did not bailout Bear at taxpayer expense‚ but enabled – as it is mandated – the financial markets to continue to function. History will call the Fed’s action the right move at the right time”‚ says Jeremy Siegel‚ Ph.D. The Bear Stearns Company began a financial meltdown in July 2007. By March 2008‚ it was ready to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Some people believe that the Federal Reserve should not have stepped in to bailout Bear Stearns because it was rewarding

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    change in depreciation method for “hit” tapes (assume that hit tapes made up 25% of new tape purchases‚ and that the average hit tape was owned for half the year)? EPS = NI-Pref Div / Avg Oustanding Common Stock. So if the depreciation method changes from straight-line to accelerated. More depreciation expense is recognized up front and NI decreases. So the EPS ratio decreases. 6) What was the effect on earnings per share of these sales to franchisees? It raised EPS by $0.25 per share. 7) What was

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    1.) Investment Strategies: The investment strategy of the High Grade Structured Credit Strategies Master Fund was to raise capital from investors and that capital was used to buy “collateralized debt obligations” backed by highly rated subprime mortgage back securities. These CDO’s had a higher rate than that of their borrowing rate‚ thus‚ they had added to their expected return by levering more and then buying more CDO’s. To hedge some of the risk of the underlying asset‚ they bought credit default

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    The collapse of Bear Stearns: Five years on David Thomas 19 Mar 2013 This week five years ago‚ JP Morgan announced it would buy Wall Street rival Bear Stearns in a deal worth $2 a share – this ultimately rose to $10. Here‚ Financial News looks at the events in the run-up to the fall of the 85-year old independent investment bank. Financial News compiled the timeline from press releases‚ contemporary media reports and William D Cohan’s account of the collapse of the bank‚ ‘House of Cards’. May

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    The accounting issues surrounding mortgage backed securities and the collapse of Bear Stearns   Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Bear Stearns and their Activities Prior to its Collapse 4 Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) and Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDO) 5 Accounting Theory‚ Mortgage Backed Securities‚ and the Collapse of Bear Stearns 6 The Offsetting Nature of Relevance and Reliability 7 Fair Value Accounting 9 Information Asymmetry 11 Adverse Selection 11 Moral Hazard

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    JP Morgan and Bear Stearns

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    annual inflation rate from 1900 to 1970 was approximately 2.5%. From 1970‚ however‚ the average rate hit about 6%‚ topping out at 13.3% by 1979. This period is also known for "stagflation"‚ a phenomenon in which inflation and unemployment steadily increased. A loose monetary policy led to very low interest rates. Corporations were borrowing large amounts to finance leverage buyouts (LBOs)‚ which led to higher and high interest burden. One of the main instruments used was financial derivatives‚ which

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    Bear Stearns Case Study

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    NBS-3A8Y INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SERVICES Coursework: Bear Stearns Case Study Student number: 6176194 Word count: 2381 Introduction Bear Stearns is an investment bank that was formed in 1923 by three partners namely: Robert Sterns‚ Joseph Bear and Harold Mayer. During its

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    Bear Stearns Case Summary

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    In 1935 the Public Utilities Holding Act was passed which led eventually to the breakup of privately held utility companies. Bear Stearns became an aggressive trader in the expanded market for securities being issued to place the utilities in public hands. In the 1940’s‚ the firm became a large player in mergers and acquisitions‚ particularly in the freight and transportation industries as cars and trucks began to replace railroads as the primary mover of people and freight. A once booming rail industry

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