{"id":7457,"date":"2008-04-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"sec-hunts-illegal-trades-in-bear-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2008\/sec-hunts-illegal-trades-in-bear-case.html","title":{"rendered":"SEC hunts illegal trades in Bear case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Financial Times &#8211; US securities regulators are trying to determine whether illegal trading and rumour mongering took place in the days leading up to the emergency sale of Bear Stearns to JP-Morgan Chase, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Cox, SEC chairman, told the Senate banking committee that enforcement officials were taking a &quot;very active&quot; look at the trading of securities tied to Bear in the days before the sale.<\/p>\n<p>He said rumours circulating about the bank were &quot;too big to miss&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Answering a question about the SEC&#8217;s response to allegations of abusive trading, Mr Cox said: &quot;Your hopes will be, I think, met and exceeded, with respect to the agencies&#8217; response to these concerns.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/22825120-01e1-11dd-a323-000077b07658.html\" target=\"_self\">Read Complete Article<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial Times &#8211; US securities regulators are trying to determine whether illegal trading and rumour mongering took place in the days leading up to the emergency sale of Bear Stearns to JP-Morgan Chase, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7457","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=7457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}