Financial PostWhat went wrong with the Facebook IPO?Financial PostWhat was supposed to be one of the most heralded IPOs ever is turning out to be a disaster for Facebook and the banks that backed it. So far, the IPO has been a dud with the stock tradin…
O'Brien: Social media has changed the Web, but can it make a buck?San Jose Mercury NewsBy Chris O'Brien Amid the fallout from Facebook's IPO is renewed skepticism about its business model. What looked like a juggernaut when it first filed t…
Market PlaygroundFacebook stock gets a relief, inches higher but still down from IPO priceWashington PostShares of Facebook Inc. are up 43 cents to $29.27 in morning trading on Wednesday. That's still down about 23 percent from its IPO price of $38…
Globe and MailFacebook IPO With ~10 Billion War Chest Could Just Buy Apple And GrowForbesThe Facebook IPO will deposit somewhere between six and 20 billion dollars into cash. Facebook could ignore all the naysayers (about how this IPO is the most fooli…
AFPSocGen's booming fixed income brightens first-quarter profit hitCNBC.comPARIS (Reuters) – French bank Societe Generale posted a surprise surge in first-quarter bond, currency and commodities revenue on Thursday, boosting confidence in its busine…
America’s empire has always been a catastrophe from a financial point of view. The business of empire is essentially a protection racket. The empire establishes its pax…and demands tribute in return. It makes war often…to extend its market sha…
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Guanxi vs Analyst: Carlyle and the coming collapse in Asian Private Equity
To this end I present to you China Forestry. China Forestry was a billion USD Hong Kong listed Chinese company with many Private Equity funds having s…
Meredith Whitney to open own rating agency
Meredith Whitney plans to set up a credit-rating agency to go head to head with Moody’s Investors Service and Standard & Poor’s. Whitney said her agency would use the same business model as established a…
Aaron Krowne rejoins Lee Adler and Russ Winter to report on his trip to South America as well as the threat to commercial free speech and the viability of the muckraking blogger business model. And as usual we discuss what’s going on in the economy and the markets, and what to do about it. Not […]
