Profits at Bear Stearns down 79%

Rescue for troubled Wall St bank
JPMorgan Chase is to acquire ailing US bank Bear Stearns for $2 a share, a fraction of its previous value.

JPMorgan to acquire Bear Stearns
JPMorgan Chase is to acquire ailing US bank Bear Stearns for $2 a share, a fraction of its previous value.

Bear Stearns gets crisis funds
US bank Bear Stearns gets emergency funding, raising fears that one of Wall Street's biggest names may collapse.

Bear Stearns gets emergency funds
US bank Bear Stearns gets emergency funding from the Federal Reserve of New York and JP Morgan Chase.

Total gains from oil price surge
Total sees its profits in the last three months of 2007 rise by 62% on record oil prices and new production plants.