>From the Globe and Mail:

"About 20 minutes before the close of trading, Bear Stearns Cos. Inc., a
major Wall Street company, mistakenly entered orders to sell $4-billion
(U.S.) worth of stocks.

"The orders, a result of a "clerical error", should have been entered as
$4-million, according to a statment posted on the New York Stock Exchange
website. All but $622-million of the orders were cancelled before execution
and Bear Stearns said that the mistake will have no material impact on the
firm."


Tom Walker
604 255 4812

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