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Bear Stearns makes trading error

A trader at New York-based Bear Sterns erroneously placed an order in October to sell $4 billion instead of $4 million’ worth of shares tracked to Standard and Poor’s (S&P) Stock Index. Bear Stearns said the error had no material impact

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