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The Motley Fool
March 20, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Bear Bails Out Bernanke The Fed Chairman can't win. If he slashes rates, Bernanke is a bum. If he bails out an iconic investment banker, he's destroying our financial system.   |
InternetNews
June 15, 2006
Paul Shread |
Stocks Soar on Fedspeak Stocks soared Thursday on soothing comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke... Inter-Tel gained 8% on a buyout offer... Nvidia jumped on an upgrade... etc. |
The Motley Fool
March 25, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Ben Bernanke Got Punk'd Yesterday's five-fold increase in JPMorgan's bidding price for Bear Stearns is a slap in the face to the Fed-fueled buyout that Ben Bernanke helped orchestrate. |
The Motley Fool
March 24, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Bear Stearns Gets Sweeter JPMorgan ups its bid for the embattled investment bank to $10 per share, a five-time jump above its original, paltry offer. |
InternetNews
February 24, 2010 |
STEC Plunges as Stocks Rebound Interest rate fears ease, but STEC's troubles continue. |
InternetNews
June 5, 2007
Paul Shread |
Stocks Slide as Rate Cut Hopes Dim Upbeat comments from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and a strong services sector reading dashed hopes for interest rate cuts on Tuesday, but tech stocks fared better than their blue chip counterparts... Amazon shares continued their run... etc. |
The Motley Fool
March 19, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
Will Bear Stearns Receive a Rival Bid? Two days after JPMorgan Chase agreed to buy Bear Stearns for $2 per share, BSC stock is trading for slightly more than $5 per share. How could this be? Because the market is factoring in the possibility of a rival offer from another bidder. |
InternetNews
March 28, 2007
Paul Shread |
Bernanke Blasts Bulls Stocks fell Wednesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke made it clear that inflation remains a big concern for the Fed... Accenture gained on strong results... VocalTec fell on its outlook... etc. |
The Motley Fool
April 8, 2008
Anand Chokkavelu |
Buffett Beats Bernanke Follow the first guy, not the second. Investors need to be more Buffett than Bernanke, taking the long-term view to the best of our ability to avoid having to grasp at short-term solutions. |
The Motley Fool
March 17, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
Why Bernanke Is Ignoring You Rate cuts aren't finding their way to cash-strapped consumers. |
The Motley Fool
March 20, 2008
Chuck Saletta |
Ben Bernanke Is Destroying Our Financial System Lost amidst all of Bernanke's heavy-handed government intervention is the fact that, if left alone, the markets still work. |
The Motley Fool
December 31, 2008 |
The 10 Biggest Stories of 2008 What Bear Stearns' fallout means for investors... The people responsible for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac... Why you should care that Lehman went bust... Black Sunday on Wall Street... AIG's failure is so much bigger than Enron's... etc. |
The Motley Fool
May 2, 2008
Mac Greer |
Fool Video: Microsoft's Hostility, Greenspan's Getaway, Akamai's Upside, and 5 Hot IPOs Can recent red-hot IPOs such as Visa, Intrepid Potash, and Cardionet produce Google-like returns going forward? Will Microsoft and Yahoo! stop playing nice? These questions and others are discussed in this video. |
The Motley Fool
March 24, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
How the Fed Rescues Markets Lower interest rates support stock prices in several ways. |
BusinessWeek
August 6, 2009
Roben Farzad |
Bernanke, Flying by the Seat of His Pants In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic, by David Wessel, is an engrossing look at the central bank's swift reaction to the crisis, and how it is wielding its power. |
The Motley Fool
March 25, 2008
Chuck Saletta |
You're Being Taken to the Cleaners You and I are subsidizing the risks that JPMorgan and Bear Stearns are taking, and their shareholders and managers are receiving the rewards. |
InternetNews
July 30, 2007
Larry Barrett |
Monster Pink Slips 800, Trims Sales Targets Job site operator to write off between $50 million and $75 million in the next year. |
InternetNews
August 28, 2007
Paul Shread |
Stocks Plunge as Fed Fuels Fears Falling home prices and consumer confidence sent stocks plunging on Tuesday, but the Federal Reserve did even more damage with the release of its meeting minutes. |
The Motley Fool
October 19, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
A Good Night's Sleep Tempur-Pedic sleeps like a baby in its latest blowout quarter. It seems as if the market is willing to reward just one mattress maker at a time. |
InternetNews
February 14, 2008
Paul Shread |
Stocks Tumble On Slowdown Fears Tech stocks led the way lower Thursday after Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke gave a downbeat economic outlook... Yahoo bucked the downtrend with a slight gain... Tech Data and Level 3 fell on downgrades... etc. |
InternetNews
January 8, 2008
Paul Shread |
Ma Bell Crushes Stocks Rumors of a Countrywide Financial bankruptcy and comments from AT&T that raised slowdown fears sent stocks plunging on Tuesday... Leap Wireless gained on strong subscriber growth... Oracle was down... etc. |
The Motley Fool
April 4, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
Congress Grills Bernanke Over Bear Recent hearings debated the Fed's role in bailing out Bear Stearns. |
The Motley Fool
November 10, 2006
Tom Taulli |
CA's Woes Mean Good Times for BMC BMC had a blowout quarter, probably at the expense of competitor CA. Investors, take note. |
InternetNews
June 5, 2006
Paul Shread |
Stocks Battered Again Stocks plunged Monday as rising oil prices and interest rates raised fears of 1970s-style stagflation... The major indexes ended the day lower... Level 3 lost on an acquisition... etc. |
The Motley Fool
August 25, 2009
Alex Dumortier |
Bernanke Is Sentenced to 4 More Years President Obama announced his nomination of "Helicopter" Ben Bernanke to a second term as chairman of the Fed. Bernanke is game -- but is he the right choice? |
The Motley Fool
April 27, 2011
Housel & Moscovitz |
Live Blog: Bernanke's First Press Conference The Fed speaks. |
InternetNews
March 17, 2008
Paul Shread |
Tech Stocks Get A Bear Hug The collapse of Bear Stearns had the biggest effect on technology stocks, of all sectors... Microsoft, HP and Intel managed gains... VMware fell on a downgrade... etc. |
The Motley Fool
October 5, 2007
Seth Jayson |
Quick Take: Hair-Trigger Ben and the Pointless Rate Cut Ben Bernanke and the Fed cut rates by half a point last month when the jobs report showed a loss of 4,000 jobs for August. However, the Labor Department's latest figures add up to an 89,000-job gain for that time. |
InternetNews
January 17, 2008
Paul Shread |
IBM, AMD Try to Right Stocks Stocks hit fresh 15-month lows Thursday, but at least IBM and AMD investors had some reason to smile... Sun was up for a second day... eBay was up a fraction on a Bear Stearns upgrade... etc. |
InternetNews
February 14, 2007
Paul Shread |
AMAT, Bernanke Boost Stocks Better than expected results from Applied Materials and soothing words from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke sent stocks soaring on Wednesday... Ciena and Varian rose on upgrades... Corillian soared on news that it will be acquired by CheckFree... etc. |
The Motley Fool
August 25, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Bernanke Will Take Your Shares to Zero Ben Bernanke speaks out about the "moral hazard" dilemma of giving firms the perception of being "too big to fail." |
The Motley Fool
June 5, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
Bernanke Changes Strategy The Fed chief has taken the fight to inflation. |
The Motley Fool
August 14, 2006
Tom Taulli |
BMC Means "Buy My Company" Software developer BMC posted a decent quarter, but the recent move in the stock price is probably the result of an uptick in buyout activity. |
The Motley Fool
January 28, 2008
Matt Koppenheffer |
Bumbling Bernanke? I Don't Think So A lot of people seem to think Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has no idea what he's doing. Does he or not? |
InternetNews
March 27, 2006
Paul Shread |
Techs Edge Higher Ahead of Fed Tech stocks edged higher Monday ahead of the first Federal Reserve meeting under new chairman Ben Bernanke... Blue chips spent the day under water... Foundry Networks gained on an upgrade... etc. |
The Motley Fool
June 11, 2008
Kristin Graham |
Can Bernanke Talk the Talk and Walk the Walk? Ben Bernanke is getting down to business to combat inflation. |
The Motley Fool
October 24, 2005
Tim Beyers |
Goodbye, Greenspan New Fed chief Ben Bernanke faces a tough job and some big shoes to fill. Here are several of the unfriendly forces that threaten the U.S. economy. |
The Motley Fool
June 22, 2011
Housel & Moscovitz |
Live Blog: Bernanke on the Economy The boss talks. |
The Motley Fool
June 5, 2007
Seth Jayson |
Bernanke Said What? If inflation continues to take a bite out of consumer spending, it might not be enough to dump the economy. But it could be more than enough to put an end to the peak earnings we're seeing these days. |
The Motley Fool
May 23, 2008
Morgan Housel |
This Week in the Economy Weekly economic news: Inflation, job cuts, and Bernanke's final hurrah. What a week. |
The Motley Fool
September 16, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Bernanke Doesn't Budge Bernanke holds rates steady. Here's why that was a good idea. |
The Motley Fool
August 28, 2008
Morgan Housel |
A Tantalizing Conflict of Interest One peculiar conflict of interest should catch investors' attention. JPMorgan Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon, and Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld, both serve on the Board of Directors at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York -- yep, the same bank that facilitated the Bear Stearns transaction. |
The Motley Fool
April 23, 2008
Bill Mann & Tim Hanson |
We've Got Your Back, Bernanke There are several irresponsible assumptions in the recent criticism of Fed chief Ben Bernanke. |
The Motley Fool
July 23, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
Should Ben Bernanke Get Another Term? He became chairman of the Federal Reserve right as we hurtled into financial meltdown. Does Bernanke deserve to keep the job? |
The Motley Fool
July 17, 2008
Chuck Saletta |
Bernanke's Complete and Utter Failure If the Fed's rate cut six months ago had been the extent of its command-and-control meddling, we might've been out of the woods by now. Sadly, it wasn't, and we're not. |
The Motley Fool
March 17, 2008
Seth Jayson |
Bernanke Bails Out Bear Has Bernanke saved the financial system, or has he guaranteed that we pay for Wall Street's mistakes? |
BusinessWeek
August 20, 2007
Peter Coy |
The Bernanke Agenda The Fed chairman feels the pain of subprime borrowers and the Street, but he's got his priorities. |
InternetNews
March 14, 2008
Paul Shread |
Bear Bailout Slams Stocks News that Bear Stearns needed emergency funding sent stocks tumbling once again on Friday. Chip stocks led the tech sector lower. |
The Motley Fool
July 24, 2006
Matt Koppenheffer |
The Market Mix Tape A look at the serenades and sorrowful tunes emanating from Wall Street this past week: "War" by the Middle East Minstrels... "Another Brick in the Wall," parts 1, 2, and 3, by The Intel, AMD, and Dell Dynamo... "Jump" by The Big Ben Bernanke Project... etc. |
BusinessWeek
July 30, 2009
Michael Mandel |
Behind Bernanke's Charm Offensive The Fed's New Worry: Popularity. For a central bank dependent on Congress for bailout funds, approval ratings matter. And they're not good |
