IPOs and Secondaries

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The NASDAQ OMX Group (NASDAQ: NDAQ) is going to try to make good on its botched IPO of Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB).  This is not really good to the public, at least not directly, but it is an olive...
We had two rather large secondary offerings today where private equity firms are unloading stock.  The tally was about $3.4 billion that the market had to absorb in new shares as Kinder Morgan, Inc....
LinkedIn Corporation (NYSE: LNKD) disclosed two Form 4 filings made with the for two officers.  While these were under adopted 10b5-1 trading plans as part of the insider trading policy, sales that...
Dollar General Corporation (NYSE: DG) managed to handily beat its earnings estimates when you consider that this is a retail stock in the secular theme of dollar stores.  Earnings were $0.63 EPS and...
Groupon, Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) is a busted IPO gone wrong and it is feeling the Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) sting along with the rest of the social media sector.  And to add insult to injury it looks...
courtesy Facebook Inc.“Earlier today, some users briefly experienced issues loading the site. The issues have since been resolved and everyone should now have access to Facebook,” company...
The Formula One initial public offering, which was supposed to debut on the Singapore market, was killed. The move was extraordinary. Owning shares in the premier racing business in the world is...
James Gorman, the CEO of Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS), went on the record to say his firm’s behavior was perfects as it lead the IPO of Facebook (NASDAQ: FB). Morgan Stanley followed all of the rules...
Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) shares fell another 10% to under $29 and are off almost a quarter from their IPO price. That IPO is surrounded by scandal which ranges from glitches in the Nasdaq (NASDAQ: NDAQ)...
courtesy Facebook Inc.The debate over whether some large investors were warned about a revenue downgrade of Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) continues. Several media have carried stories about Morgan Stanley...
A quick review of the 25 largest US IPOs ever shows how badly Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) has done in early trading. Most of the company’s on the list have tremendous revenue, traditional business plans...
courtesy Facebook Inc.Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) has sent a letter 17,200 brokers at its Morgan Stanley Smith Barney brokerage houses telling the brokers that the bank is reviewing customer orders for...
After tumbling about -26% in its first three days of trading, stock in Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) is up more than 3% just before noon today even as shareholder lawsuits and investigations mount...
courtesy Facebook Inc.Investors can’t seem to part with shares of Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) fast enough. Nearly 90 million shares traded hands today, and the buyers had to be optimists. Shares...
Blackrock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) is about to get a huge amount of shares dumped onto the stock market.  Barclays (NYSE: BCS) is set to unload a stake of about 19.6% or so which was worth more than $6.1...