Monday, June 25, 2007

US STOCKS-Indexes fall on subprime worries, higher oil

(Reuters) - NEW YORK, June 25 - U.S. stocks fell on Monday,
after trading higher for most of the session, as oil futures
edged up close to $70, and on worries that there may be more
fallout from problems in the subprime mortgage market.




Shares of Bear Stearns Cos. , which is running
damage control following the bail-out of one of its two hedge
funds that invested in risky subprime mortgages, tumbled more
than 5 percent after a Merrill Lynch & Co. analyst said
Bear may have not seen the last of such troubles.


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