Description: Commentary: Here’s a fair-price calculation for Facebook
Source: Marketwatch.com
Date: May 25, 2012
Link: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/facebooks-stock-should-trade-for-1380-2012-05-25
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Description: Facebook Inc. (FB)’s initial public offering, plagued by trading errors and a 16 percent drop in the share price, will push more individual investors out of a stock market they already distrust after the financial crisis.
Source: Bloomberg.com
Date: May 26, 2012
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Description: All hail Memorial Day weekend. In the tradition of my Miami childhood, ‘tis the season to don Crockett & Tubbs white pants and flaunt the right to bare arms. Hedgies and traders clad in Sperry Docksiders bolt Gotham for the leafy, saltwater-sprayed indolence of the Hamptons. The market’s volume dips to a trickle.
Source: Businessweek.com
Date: May 25, 2012
Link: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-05-25/kvetch-in-may-why-market-timing-isnt-everything
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Description: As trading volumes spiked to 567 million shares, CNNMoney tried to get in on the action.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: May 18, 2012
Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2012/05/18/n-cnnmoney-buys-facebook-shares.cnnmoney/
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Description: With Facebook Inc. FB +0.61% finally going public, the market’s attention next turns to whether the social-networking sensation will lead the way for another wave of tech firms to cash in on the IPO market
Source: Marketwatch.com
Date: May 18, 2012
Link: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/facebook-debut-sets-pace-for-tech-ipos-to-come-2012-05-18
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Description: Three years after a spectacular financial collapse, Iceland is coming back, largely on the strength of its strong exports. Video and reporting by Charles Forelle from the island of Vestmannaeyjar.
Source: Marketwatch.com – video report
Date: May 18, 2012
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Description: The 8-year-old social-networking site run by co-founder Mark Zuckerberg closed 0.6 percent higher at $38.23 in New York yesterday. That compares with Carlyle Group LP (CG)’s lackluster 0.2 percent day-one increase on May 3. It pales in contrast with Google Inc. (GOOG)’s 18 percent jump in its 2004 initial public offering, Visa Inc. (V)’s 28 percent gain in 2008 and LinkedIn Corp.’s 109 percent surge last May.
Source: Bloomberg.com
Date: May 19, 2012
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Description: As Facebook increases the size and price range of its initial public offering, the rest of the IPO market is starting to sputter. According to data compiled by Bloomberg, there’s been an uptick in the number of companies that have either withdrawn or postponed their IPO in the past three months. Since mid-February, 29 IPOs have been shelved, a 38 percent increase over the same period last year.
Source: Businessweek.com
Date: May 16, 2012
Link: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-05-16/is-facebook-sucking-oxygen-out-of-the-ipo-market
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Description: Soft demand in crisis-stricken Europe is hurting sales of watch and accessory maker Fossil – and its stock price.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: May 10, 2012
Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/markets/2012/05/08/mkts-bz-fossil.cnnmoney/
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Description: After news of JPMorgan’s multi-billion dollar loss, Mike Mayo reaffirms his stance that incentives are misaligned at big banks.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: May 11, 2012
Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2012/05/11/n-mayo-jpmorgan-banks.cnnmoney/
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