{"id":6608,"date":"2007-09-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"bear-returns-to-public-debt-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2007\/bear-returns-to-public-debt-market.html","title":{"rendered":"Bear returns to public debt market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MSN MoneyCentral-Bear Stearns returned to the public debt market on Thursday with a $2.5bn note sale, indicating that the troubled investment bank does not have any current funding crisis that wouldrequire it to find an outside investor to take a large stake.<\/p>\n<p>  The debt sale came as shares in Bear Stearns slipped almost 2 per cent on doubt that any outside investor or group of investors would soon buy a substantial stake in the bank.<\/p>\n<p>  Sources close to the matter said Bear was not in advanced talks with anyone about taking a large stake, although conversations have occurred in the past.<\/p>\n<p>  The share price decline and the bond sale came a day after the The New York Times reported on its website that potential investors in Bear could include Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor and  chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway.<\/p>\n<p>  The paper also cited Bank of America, Wachovia and two Chinese banks \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 Citic Group and China Construction Bank \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 as possible investors.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/moneycentral.msn.com\/inc\/news\/providerredir.asp?feed=FT&amp;Date=20070928&amp;ID=7545424\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSN MoneyCentral-Bear Stearns returned to the public debt market on Thursday with a $2.5bn note sale, indicating that the troubled investment bank does not have any current funding crisis that wouldrequire it to find an outside investor to take a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}