Facebook IPO
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If Mark Zuckerberg wants to be as diabolical as Aaron Sorkin portrayed him, he should buy all rights to "The Social Network" in next windowby Peter Lauria via twitter 5/18/2012 4:25:19 PM -
More from @EDKrudy: One broker here is taking a wait and see approach. He says he is holding off with his buy orders for a few days to see how the stock trades. That approach may partly explain why the stock didn't get more of a lift.
"I am waiting, I want to see what happens over the next couple of days," said Ray Gordos, a broker at John Thomas. "I was hoping that it didn't open up in the $50s, becuase if it pops it drops. This proves that whoever did the valuations did a good job." -
so how many people are going to find out they've double sold $FB? R those orders getting busted,or will there be buyers of synthetic shorts?by andrezdanow via twitter 5/18/2012 4:49:22 PM -
@stockmonkeymom Nothing is going through for $FB at Schwab.by jtaylor via twitter 5/18/2012 4:49:37 PM -
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I think the drop in Zynga etc. was probably FB arbitrage -- those stocks were a proxy and now traders can get the real thingby mathewi via twitter 5/18/2012 5:04:04 PM -
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Facebook's debut is modest, high volumes cause problems
Facebook Inc shares rose less than expected on their first day of trade on Friday and huge order volume caused technical problems that marred the coming out party of the No. 1 online social network.
Its shares were up 8 percent in early afternoon trading on the Nasdaq, after opening 11 percent higher and then rapidly heading south to touch their initial public offering price of $38. The gains were below market forecasts of as much as a 50 percent jump.
"We have got some unhappy guys out there," said Wayne Kaufman, chief market strategist at John Thomas Financial, a retail broker on Wall Street. "They were hoping for Facebook to be considerably better. I bet there are a lot of disappointed people in the market."
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was much the euphoria of the debut of fb, now fluctuates an average of 40.40 per share, compared to what they expected to have a debut of 30% reaching 50 dollars per share, the question many have is how fb will keep and increase their profits, and how to apply them in place, a factor not taken into account now is the problem of economies, if fb would have done would have been a month or when economies were stabilized definitely had reached 50 earned dollars and 21.05 billion dollars.
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I ain't the one- Car pulls by me at Facebook HQ entrance, driver whips out iPhone to snap picture of me, asks "did you become rich today?"by AlexeiReuters via twitter 5/18/2012 5:42:39 PM -
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yes, but it's May 18..RT @SteveKrak: It's May 18 and the Baltimore Orioles are the best team in the American League.by Peter Lauria via twitter 5/18/2012 6:27:52 PM
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Facebook investors left guessing after Nasdaq glitch
Individual investors were left guessing for more than two hours on Friday about whether their buy and sell orders for newly issued Facebook shares were actually executed.
Exchange operator Nasdaq OMX Group had problems sending electronic messages back to the brokerages that handle orders from individual, or "retail," investors orders, said sources with direct knowledge of the situation.
Because the acknowledgements didn't come back from the exchange, the brokers were unable to tell their clients that trades had been executed.
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Facebook employees pose with the Nasdaq bell at Facebook's Menlo Park headquarters in California - via Instagram
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I hope Facebook shares start trading before the market closes today..oh wait, they are trading, couldn't tell from that 0.1% bumpby Peter Lauria via twitter 5/18/2012 7:31:49 PM
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The analysis of Facebook's first day share price performance we are hearing right now is pundit revisionism at its most obsceneby Peter Lauria via twitter 5/18/2012 7:38:04 PM
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Social media stocks knocked as Facebook debuts
Shares of Zynga, the leading social gaming company which gets much of its revenue from Facebook, fell more than 14 percent at one point, and were halted twice. Zynga was down 5.7 percent at $7.80 a share in afternoon trading, having earlier hit a low of $7.08, which triggered an automatic halt due to the fluctuation in its price.
Other social media stocks, including LinkedIn (LNKD.N), Groupon (GRPN.O), Pandora Media (P.N) and Yelp (YELP.N), were also lower on Friday, with Groupon and Yelp losing more than 5 percent.
GSV Capital (GSVC.O), a listed investment vehicle that bought Facebook shares before the IPO, slumped 14 percent to $13.87.
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If it wants, I'm sure Facebook can borrow the old media line that "flat is the new up" to justify today's performance..by Peter Lauria via twitter 5/18/2012 7:52:03 PM
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CNBC just said underwriters would consider it a victory if stock closes at $38..talk about revising expectations..FTWby Peter Lauria via twitter 5/18/2012 7:54:15 PM
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Hold up, Facebook shares staging a late rally..up 42 cents now..can you hear that pop?by Peter Lauria via twitter 5/18/2012 7:57:14 PM
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And sceneby Peter Lauria via twitter 5/18/2012 8:00:13 PM
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Facebook gets early brokerage 'sell' rating
Facebook Inc(FB.O) received what may be its first "sell" rating on Friday, from Pivotal Research Group, which also set a target price of $30 for the stock.
Shares in the No. 1 social network fizzled in their debut on Friday, managing an 18 percent gain before backtracking to trade close to their $38 initial public offering price. -
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Isn't $FB closing flat a huge win for Facebook? They wrung every dollar out of the IPO. All else is noise. Convince me I'm wrong.by Paul Smalera via twitter 5/18/2012 8:38:04 PM -
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All the hype was focused on Facebook's IPO today, but that didn't stop the company from buying a mobile gifting service. The Wall Street Journal reports Facebook quietly bought Karma on Friday while the eyes of the world were focused on its first day of public trading.
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Facebook shares total volume of 573,622,571 on first day of trading was 21.40% of the Nasdaq composite index - @rajunarisetti
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