JPMorgan Chase said it would buy stricken rival Bear Stearns for just $2 a share in an all-stock deal that values the fifth-largest U.S. investment bank at the center of the credit crisis at about $236 million.
The takeover, which has the backing of the Federal Reserve and the Treasury, underlines the risks banks and financial companies are facing as the U.S. mortgage crisis deepens, while the rock-bottom price -- more than 90 percent below its Friday close -- raises questions over valuations in the banking sector.
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