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According to Reuters, items such as gold balls, beach towels, playing cards, baseball caps and cuddly toy bears with the Bear Stearns logo, have all been placed on eBay and are fetching in excess of the $9.35 paid for each share by the brokerage firm's buyer JPMorgan.
In a reflection of the increasingly pessimistic mood in worldwide markets, a t-shirt currently for sale on the AnarchyWARE website reads: "My mortgage company imploded and all I got was this lousy tee-shirt".
Yesterday, two Bear Stearns executives were indicted and arrested on charges of defrauding investors in two subprime mortgage funds.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that since the start of March, more than 400 individuals have been charged with fraud by the US justice department.
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