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  2. Merrill (company) - Wikipedia

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    Merrill (officially Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated), previously branded Merrill Lynch, is an American investment management and wealth management division of Bank of America. Along with BofA Securities , the investment banking arm, both firms engage in prime brokerage and broker-dealer activities.

  3. Dot-com bubble - Wikipedia

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    The dot-com bubble (or dot-com boom) was a stock market bubble that ballooned during the late-1990s and peaked on Friday, March 10, 2000. This period of market growth coincided with the widespread adoption of the World Wide Web and the Internet, resulting in a dispensation of available venture capital and the rapid growth of valuations in new ...

  4. Merrill Lynch & Co. - Wikipedia

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    Merrill Lynch & Co., formally Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, was a publicly-traded American investment bank that existed independently from 1914 until January 2009 before being acquired by Bank of America and rolled into BofA Securities . The firm engaged in prime brokerage and broker-dealer activities and was headquartered ...

  5. 1994 bond market crisis - Wikipedia

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    The 1994 bond market crisis, or Great Bond Massacre, was a sudden drop in bond market prices across the developed world. [1] [2] It began in Japan and the United States (US), and spread through the rest of the world. [3] After the recession of the early 1990s, historically low interest rates in many industrialized nations preceded an ...

  6. Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers - Wikipedia

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    The bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, also known as the Crash of '08 on September 15, 2008, was the climax of the subprime mortgage crisis. After the financial services firm was notified of a pending credit downgrade due to its heavy position in subprime mortgages, the Federal Reserve summoned several banks to negotiate financing for its ...

  7. BofA Securities - Wikipedia

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    BofA Securities, Inc., [1] previously Bank of America Merrill Lynch ( BAML ), is an American multinational investment banking division under the auspices of Bank of America. It is not to be confused with Merrill, the stock brokerage and trading platform subsidiary of Bank of America. It provides services in mergers and acquisitions, equity and ...

  8. ImClone stock trading case - Wikipedia

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    ImClone stock trading case. A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Attorney probe into trading in the shares of ImClone Systems resulted in a widely publicized criminal case, which resulted in prison terms for businesswoman and television personality Martha Stewart, ImClone CEO Samuel D. Waksal, and Stewart's broker at Merrill Lynch ...

  9. Credit rating agencies and the subprime crisis - Wikipedia

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    Rating agencies lowered the credit ratings on $1.9 trillion in mortgage backed securities from the third fiscal quarter (1 July—30 September) of 2007 to the second quarter (1 April–30 June) of 2008. One institution, Merrill Lynch, sold more than $30 billion of collateralized debt obligations for 22 cents on the dollar in late July 2008.