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J.P. Morgan Buys Bear in Fire Sale, As Fed Widens Credit to Avert Crisis

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In the sale of Bear Stearns to JP Morgan Chase the Fed is providing upto $30 billion in financing for Bear Stearns mortgage securities assets which its unlikely will find buyers, and if those assets decline in value its the Fed that will bear the loss not JP Morgan. Its truly a fire sale of Bear Stearns for $256 million and the Fed providing the guarantees for any future declines in value or losses from Bear Stearns. Bear Stearns options were this or going into bankruptcy.


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