The fall of Bear Stearns
Some black humorist had stuck a two-dollar bill to the revolving doors at Bear Stearns' 43-storey headquarters on Manhattan's Madison Avenue yesterday morning. That is the knock-down price that JPMorgan's takeover puts on the company's shares, a dismal outcome for shareholders but, for the financial system, perhaps the only way to avert a full-blown banking crisis.
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