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By Nina Mehta, Bloomberg |
May 18, 2012
While Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. succeeded in delivering Facebook Inc. to public owners, the biggest initial offering of all time was rife with drama.
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By Lee Spears and Sarah Frier, Bloomberg |
May 18, 2012
Facebook Inc. is set to start trading today after a record initial public offering that made the social network more costly than almost every company in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index.
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By Nina Mehta and Joseph Ciolli, Bloomberg |
May 17, 2012
Facebook Inc.’s initial public offering will be the biggest test of a rule introduced in 2011 to protect investors and curb volatility on the first day a company trades.
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By Christine Harper, Bloomberg |
May 17, 2012
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and funds managed by the firm will sell about $1 billion of stock in Facebook Inc.’s initial public offering, cashing out almost half their stake after the social network doubled in value.
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By Brian Womack, Bloomberg |
May 15, 2012
Facebook Inc. raised the price range in its initial public offering, increasing the amount it is seeking in the record sale for an Internet company to as much as $12.8 billion.
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By Nina Mehta and Lu Wang, Bloomberg |
April 26, 2012
Nasdaq OMX Group Inc.’s waiting period for entry into one of its best-known stock indexes was a negotiating point with Facebook Inc. as the company weighed where to list its shares.
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By Lee Spears and Anjelica Tan, Bloomberg |
March 30, 2012
In a year heralding the landmark initial public offering of Facebook Inc., share sales got off to a slow start. While more companies tapped equity markets in March, IPOs globally raised $16.2 billion in the first quarter, the least since 2009.
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By Nina Mehta and Nikolaj Gammeltoft, Bloomberg |
March 28, 2012
Directors at Bats Global Markets Inc. won’t consider redoing the exchange operator’s initial public offering for at least a quarter, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.
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By Nina Mehta, Whitney Kisling and Inyoung Hwang, Bloomberg |
March 26, 2012
The software error that derailed the initial public offering of Bats Global Markets Inc., where 11% of all U.S. stock trading occurs, rattled investors concerned about the growing complexity of financial markets.
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By Canaccord Genuity Morning Coffee |
November 7, 2011
Groupon, the daily-deals site, made its debut on the NASDAQ Friday, with shares trading well above the IPO price of $20 a share, which also above the $16-18 range that the company set two weeks ago