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A Fire Sale On Wall Street
WINNERS J.P. Morgan Chase: The company agreed to acquire Bear Stearns for a bargain-basement price of $2 a share, or about $236 million, a small fraction of Bear's Nov. 30 value of $13.6 billion. The Federal Reserve agreed to assume the risk for $30 billion worth of Bear Stearns's dodgy investmen...