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• Mortgage Mania Didn't Grip Everyone

  Published: August 4, 2007, 10:58 pm

  Tags: Times Business Finance, Housing Bubble, Morgenson Gretchen, Times Select

  GRETCHEN MORGENSON Published: August 5, 2007 THE seized-up United States mortgage market claimed more victims both here and abroad last week. The American Home Mortgage Investment Corporation, once a big lender, closed its doors, laying off more than 6,000 workers. In Germany, IKB Deutsche Industriebank received a $4.8 billion

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• A Week When Risk Came Home to Roost

  Published: August 12, 2007, 7:07 pm

  Tags: Fair Game, Morgenson Gretchen, Times Select

  GRETCHEN MORGENSON Published: August 12, 2007 FOR something that everybody assured us was contained, the subprime mortgage mess certainly has spread.Last week, the hemorrhaging credit markets bled right into the stock market. The major indexes are still up for the year, thankfully, but the Dow Jones industrial average, which

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• Funds Stopped Playing Before the Game Got Ugly

  Published: August 19, 2007, 5:27 am

  Tags: Times Business Finance, Morgenson Gretchen, Times Select

  GRETCHEN MORGENSON Published: August 19, 2007 TAKE-TWO INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE, the maker of Grand Theft Auto, the shoot-'em-up video game, disclosed last week that it had received a Wells notice on Aug. 9 from the Securities and Exchange Commission, alerting the company to a possible enforcement action. Take-Two said the notice

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• TimesSelect Why the Roller Coaster Seems Wilder

  Published: August 26, 2007, 11:26 am

  Tags: Fair Game, Morgenson Gretchen, Times Select

  GRETCHEN MORGENSON Published: August 26, 2007 STOCKS regained some composure last week, and not a moment too soon for investors worn out by the market's turbulence. Credit markets remain easily spooked, however, and justifiably so. There is still so much that investors do not know about what lurks in portfolios around the world

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• Hedge Funds and the Little People

  Published: September 1, 2007, 11:59 pm

  Tags: Fair Game, Hedge Funds, Morgenson Gretchen, Times Select

  GRETCHEN MORGENSON Published: September 2, 2007 BURTON R. LIFLAND, a United States bankruptcy judge in Lower Manhattan, said last week that he needed more time to decide whether the liquidation of two failed Bear Stearns mortgage securities funds could proceed in the Cayman Islands, where they are incorporated, or in this country,

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• It's Just a Matter of Equity

  Published: September 16, 2007, 11:36 am

  Tags: Times Business Finance, Morgenson Gretchen, Times Select

  GRETCHEN MORGENSON Published: September 16, 2007 The moribund private equity market stirred a bit last week as Kohlberg Kravis Roberts dredged up some buyers for loans to finance its $22 billion purchase of Alliance Boots, a British drugstore chain. But lingering investor wariness toward private equity maestros and their deals is far

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