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Re: Facebook Shares Opens At $42 As Trading Begins by Nobody: 1:43am On May 19, 2012 |
bandiejay: [size=18pt]They can diversify by buying NairalandNAIRALAND KE, WHO WILL BUY INTO A WEBSITE FULL OF MODERATORS THAT BAN YOU FOR COUNTERING THEIR OPINIONS. I GOT A NEW USERID COURTESY OF INTOLERABLE MODS |
Re: Facebook Shares Opens At $42 As Trading Begins by denzel2009: 1:49am On May 19, 2012 |
leomaxx: THE WHOLE WORLD CAN BE FOOLISH SOMETIMES, ITS THE FOOLISHNESS OF THE WORLD THAT CAUSED THE GREAT DEPRESSION, ITS THE SAME REASON THAT WE DO NOT HAVE UP 1 MILLION BILLIONAIRES IN A PLANET OF 7 BILLION PEOPLE. FACEBOOK PUBLIC OFFER IS ONE OF THOSE FOOLISH DECISIONS A NIGERIAN CAN MAKE IN BUYING INTO. THOSE ADS ON THAT SITE WONT GENERATE ENOUGH INCOME FOR THE SHARE HOLDERS.and he would want to charge for some services, then the bubble bursts! |
Re: Facebook Shares Opens At $42 As Trading Begins by lastpage: 6:58am On May 19, 2012 |
TheShopKeeper: Yes nigerian resident can buy if they have a honest broker. I am just remembering the "Dot.Com" burble bust of the late 90's! ![]() ![]() ![]() Already, its gone down from the "initial" $42, back to $38+....in just a few hours! Apart from those who got-in very early (Kudos to people like Bono or his Stock Adviser, for smelling the coffee very early), most "Late Comers" are just going to fund BETTER life-style for Zuckerberg and the likes of Bono. You dont make money from Stock, by going-in when everyone is "rushing-in", you make it when no one or most people DONT realize the value or how valuable it will be in the future. By the time every one cop's-on, THE "GRAVY TRAIN" HAS ALREADY LEFT THAT BUS STOP![/b] ![]() I hope we can bookmark this page and thread......and refer back to it in about three years time! FaceBook wont be the "in-thing" then......Internet Technology offerings come and go, like Yesterday! Cheers and think before you waste your money! ![]() Lastpage! Caveat: If you bought today and trade it as quickly as possible, who knows, you could still find some "mugun & Maga" (the late-comers ![]() [b] 1 Like |
Re: Facebook Shares Opens At $42 As Trading Begins by EPOMA(m): 8:44am On May 19, 2012 |
afam4eva:MY guy am happy that others replied you, calling me a Dunce. We are not here to say who we are , but I think you can ask anyone that have knowledge about the market if they would take advise from you a web hoster or someone that works for an investment bank (credit suisse). My earlier word mumu was becos someone called the other mumu.Most of this big investment banks ofload junks to people and make so much noise about it. Same way I warned my friends about transcorp and dangote share in Nigeria and the would not listen and all of a sudden dangote becomes the richest man in Africa dumping all his junk to nigerian stock market 1 Like |
Re: Facebook Shares Opens At $42 As Trading Begins by EPOMA(m): 8:51am On May 19, 2012 |
ekt_bear: Marketing pays a lot of money.everyone uses google map,google is going places and they have an edge in stuff like maps that everyone uses, but what does facebook have for now |
Re: Facebook Shares Opens At $42 As Trading Begins by member479760: 10:47am On May 19, 2012 |
LeoMax: It dont matter where you live, get a partner in US to set up Fidelity or Charles Schwab for you using their ssn and dl and get online and you can trade using US ip and you can withdraw your earnings. you are a 419 original, liar |
Re: Facebook Shares Opens At $42 As Trading Begins by 401kk: 12:56pm On May 19, 2012 |
auwal87: All I can tell you guys is LinkedIn gain over 100% in its first IPO day, from $45 to around $100. Imagine how many millions people made in just a single day, since thousands were able to buy at the opening rate of $45. Now Facebook is earning much more than LinkedIn, and is worth much more than LinkedIn, so if you compare it to LinkedIn alone, you will at least predict Facebook shares to raise to at least nothing less than $200 per share in the first week. This week has been a very hard week for the NASDAQ and the moment they bounce back, you will see FB shooting up like crazy. If you bought your FB shares today and you are wondering why it closed with a gain of just 23 cents, don't worry and wait for the opening next week, you will be surprised! LinkedIn make the bulk of their earnings from paid subscriptions and their user database consists of mostly serious minded business executives etc. Since LinkedIn is a paid subscription site, it they deal with less spam issues unlike facebook. The spamming culture on facebook is becoming something else and this could make serious users lose interest. Same thing happened to myspace. Facebook won't the expectations of investors, pride comes before a fall. |
Re: Facebook Shares Opens At $42 As Trading Begins by 401kk: 1:01pm On May 19, 2012 |
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Re: Facebook Shares Opens At $42 As Trading Begins by Nobody: 3:51pm On May 19, 2012 |
anybody from all over the world can buy facebook share at oneshare.com and giveashare.com using credit card. A Share Certificate will be sent to your address. more info? bolatito@computer.org. |
Re: Facebook Shares Opens At $42 As Trading Begins by Nobody: 3:56pm On May 19, 2012 |
neksummi:you can buy facebk and other big intl companies' shares @ oneshare.com and giveashare.com including a certificate that would be sent to your add anywhere in the world. More info? Bolatito@computer.org. |
Re: Facebook Shares Opens At $42 As Trading Begins by Nobody: 4:05pm On May 19, 2012 |
anybody from all over the world can easily buy facebook, google, yahoo, ford, apple, hp, ibm, dhl, disney etc shares in just 5 minutes at www.oneshare.com and www.giveashare.com using credit card. A Share Certificate will also be sent to your address. more info? bolatito@computer.org. |
Re: Facebook Shares Opens At $42 As Trading Begins by Slynonny(m): 6:20pm On May 19, 2012 |
Just said my mind,,is pure business tactics, |
Re: Facebook Shares Opens At $42 As Trading Begins by Onlytruth(m): 9:20pm On May 19, 2012 |
I am not deep into stocks, but I make it my business to acquire deep knowledge and understanding about ALL things! Like someone already side here, the limits of Facebook's growth is directly proportional to its ability to innovate. I already see about 4 SOLID ways Facebook can generate improved revenue, and those ideas are by no means "breakthrough" ideas. When you are sitting on 901 million users, and new billions of CASH raised through the IPO, you've be a complete dunce not find a way to innovate, buy up more talents and competition, and move ahead. Facebook is a threat to all other big web operators -amazon, google, priceline, ebay, linkedin, yahoo, microsoft. . . you name it. They can take their business in any direction and still corner a huge chunk of the market. |
Re: Facebook Shares Opens At $42 As Trading Begins by jdash123: 8:04am On May 20, 2012 |
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Re: Facebook Shares Opens At $42 As Trading Begins by violent(m): 7:57pm On May 20, 2012 |
Onlytruth: I am not deep into stocks, but I make it my business to acquire deep knowledge and understanding about ALL things! Have you heard of a website called MySpace? I'm sure you must! You do understand that as at 2008, it was the most visited website in the world right? and you understand that as at December 2011, it was ranked 138th in terms of web traffic? why do you suppose this is not capable of repeating itself with facebook? In order words, why do you suppose there aren't remote possibilities of a new social networking site springing up to overtake facebook in the next ten years? comparing facebook to google is just silly. Google owns Youtube...owns Android...owns Chrome browser...owns GMAIL....owns the Chromebook...and ultimately owns Google. what chance does facebook have? |
Re: Facebook Shares Opens At $42 As Trading Begins by AFOLABISUNKANMI(m): 10:16pm On May 20, 2012 |
i have been expecting this |
Re: Facebook Shares Opens At $42 As Trading Begins by dripstoil: 11:18pm On May 20, 2012 |
violent: Myspace failed because they fail to inovate, they fail to buy, to make changes. Facebook is constantly innovating, buying other tech start ups, and making changes. Companies They've bough in the last couple of months 1. Istagram 2. Acquires Karma (a month a go for mobile traffic monetization) 3. Acquired Glancee (another mobile company) 4. Bought Lightbox 5. Currently developing Search Engine and negotiating other deals. If you're a developer and you've been privilaged to work on Facebook's developer's plantform, you'll understand that mentioning fb alongside Yahoo and Myspace is a near taboo. 6. Facebook currently acqured former Sun Corp headquater at Palo Alto for the purpose of expansion. You need to see facebook beyond timeline and status update social network, they've grown far beyond that. Facebook is a Tech company to recon with both on and off the internet. Buying Facebook's share is by no means a negative investment. Contrary to your ealier claim, Facebook has 806 patents |
Re: Facebook Shares Opens At $42 As Trading Begins by Victorwap(m): 11:21am On May 21, 2012 |
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Re: Facebook Shares Opens At $42 As Trading Begins by violent(m): 9:24pm On May 21, 2012 |
dripstoil: Buying new companies does not always mean sound investment or opportunities for growth! In the last 5 years, Yahoo made over 30 different acquisitions alone. That still does not place it anywhere outside of the death spiral in which it has fallen. If your business is exposed to strong competition and your moat isn't wide enough within an industry that is highly competitive, then you can easily be the next MySpace! Instagram only started in 2010 and it's had over 40 million subscribers....that's to show you how susceptible social networking sites are. Facebook isn't going to grown forever..and at some point, people will want something else!...This is just another Tulip Bulb, and your argument that facebook is "constantly innovating" makes it all the more a fitting Tulip story!...who's not constantly innovating? Facebook is not yet tested, doesn't even have a clue on how to make money with mobile platforms.....why pay a premium on such a company? Even wall street is being cautious about this "wonder drug"...it's shares is falling almost 10 percent ![]() |
Re: Facebook Shares Opens At $42 As Trading Begins by courage89(m): 11:11pm On May 21, 2012 |
Facebook shares sink 11 percent as reality overtakes hype By Chuck Mikolajczak and John McCrank (Reuters) - Facebook shares sank 11 percent in the first day of trading without the full support of the company's underwriters, leaving some investors down almost 25 percent from where they were Friday and driving others to switch back to more established stocks. Facebook's debut was beset by problems, so much so that Nasdaq said on Monday it was changing its IPO procedures. That may comfort companies considering a listing, but does it little for Facebook, whose lead underwriter, Morgan Stanley, had to step in and defend the $38 offering price on the open market. Even so, one source said Morgan Stanley's own brokers were at one point "ranting and raving" about glitches that left unclear what trades had actually been executed. Without a fresh round of defense, Facebook shares ended down $4.20, at $34.03, on the Nasdaq. That was a decline of almost 25 percent from Friday's intra-day high of $45 a share. "At the moment it's not living up to the hype," said Frank Lesh, a futures analyst and broker at FuturePath Trading LLC in Chicago, adding that some people may have decided to hang back and buy the stock on the decline. "Look at the valuation on it. It might have said 'buy' to a few people, but boy it was awfully rich," he said. The drop in Facebook's share price wiped more than $11 billion off of the company's market capitalization -- it became a sufficiently interesting pop culture story that even gossip website TMZ did a brief item Monday morning. Volume was again massive on Monday, with nearly 168 million shares trading hands, making it by far the most active stock on the U.S. market. Nearly 581 million shares were traded on Friday. The drop was so steep that circuit breakers kicked in a few minutes after the open to restrict short sales of the stock, according to a notice from Nasdaq. EMOTIONAL TRADING "One of the things that we are seeing in Facebook is a lot of emotional trading, in that over the weekend much of the media coverage was negative, and that could be weighing on investors' decisions to get out of the stock," said JJ Kinahan, TD Ameritrade's chief derivatives strategist. Shares of other one-time Internet darlings fell in lock step with Facebook before rebounding on their own merits, with Yelp and Groupon rising. Zynga and LinkedIn fell, though. The news was not all bad, though, as the Nasdaq rose 2.46 percent. High-profile tech stocks rose sharply, with Apple up 5.8 percent and Amazon 2 percent higher. FuturePath's Lesh said some investors took money out of Apple to buy Facebook, and now could be going right back in to Apple given the lackluster performance of Facebook thus far. By mid-afternoon on Monday, though, there were indications that investors might be coming back in to Facebook. The stock was well off the lows of the morning, and some market players saw an entry point forming. "We see 38 percent of the ideas on Facebook are short and 62 percent have a more long bias," said Tim Murphy, general manager for the Americas at TIM Group, which transmits and tracks equity trade ideas from 750 brokerage firms for institutional investors globally. "Brokers are saying to their clients there is a good opportunity here." NASDAQ CHANGES Still there was a long list of questions -- ranging from whether the underwriters priced the shares too high to how well prepared the Nasdaq was to handle the biggest Internet IPO ever -- and few easy answers. "It was just a poorly done deal and it just so happens to be the biggest deal ever for Nasdaq and they pooched it; that's the bottom line here," said Joe Saluzzi, co-manager of trading at Themis Trading in Chatham, New Jersey. Nasdaq said Monday morning the changes it was making would prevent a repeat of what happened Friday, when glitches prevented some traders from knowing for hours whether their trades had been completed. The exchange also said it would implement procedures to accommodate orders that were not properly executed last week, which could ultimately lead to compensation for some investors. "It doesn't instill confidence for clients. Talk about trying to convince them it isn't a casino," one Midwestern financial adviser told Reuters on Monday. Separately, a source said Morgan Stanley's brokerage arm still had a "large number" of share orders from Friday that were not confirmed, which it was working to resolve. A Facebook spokeswoman declined to comment on the share price issue. Some financial advisers, who might have been furious last week at getting left out, were counting themselves lucky by Monday that they did not get their clients involved. "By pure luck I failed to talk it up with a lot of clients because I didn't think I would be able to get much," said one Raymond James adviser, who sought, and received, only 500 shares for one client. "I basically told people they weren't going to get any, and luckily, it proved to be a bust," the adviser said. (Additional reporting by Jennifer Saba, David Gaffen, Edward Krudy, Ashley Lau and Rodrigo Campos in New York, Doris Frankel in Chicago and Jennifer Merritt in Orlando, Florida; Writing by Ben Berkowitz in Boston; Editing by Edward Tobin, Maureen Bavdek and Steve Orlofsky) |
Re: Facebook Shares Opens At $42 As Trading Begins by rasputinn(m): 4:04pm On May 22, 2012 |
courage89: Facebook shares sink 11 percent as reality overtakes hype ![]() ![]() ![]() Where are all the noise makers who failed to listen to the voice of reason and sound capital market judgement but only just decided to join in hyping facebook IPO/shares just to belong I knew the bubble would burst,but never knew the red flags and fault lines would begin to show too soon. FACEBOOK SHARES ARE OVERRATED,BUY NOW @ YOUR OWN PERIL |
Re: Facebook Shares Opens At $42 As Trading Begins by dripstoil: 8:11pm On May 22, 2012 |
violent: For now, it seems the center can not hold - maybe we'll come back in the next 2-3years to argue this? |
Re: Facebook Shares Opens At $42 As Trading Begins by Nobody: 7:40am On May 23, 2012 |
Not me.I am not part of that for now. |
Re: Facebook Shares Opens At $42 As Trading Begins by rasputinn(m): 7:53am On May 23, 2012 |
dripstoil: What do you want to come back in the next 2 to 3 yrs to do,to place flowers by the graveside of the facebook IPO? Go and check wall street history for IPOs that tanked 10% southwards just two days after their listing/IPO and tell me where such companies are today. As a matter of fact,the share price of facebook would have started taking a nose dive from the very first day of trading if not for the fact that the lead underwriter;Morgan Stanley stepped in to steady the price @ above $38 just to encourage more gullible investors to throw away their money by buying the over hyped shares and also to allow the old existing shareholders more time for profit taking and cleaning out. Now that Morgan Stanley is going to be investigated for "not handling the IPO well" aka keeping the information that it did not support the $38 price or that it knew the shares were overrated to only the old shareholders and not everybody,the bad press and uncertainty that would generate will trigger further dumping of the shares by more existing older investors and this will further drive the share price towards the $20 threshold in the near future People should have listened to seasoned investors like Warren Buffet who said he was going to invest over $3 billion on other shares,the same day facebook IPO was open,but that is the irony of life, So for all those that bought into the IPO sorry for your losses,just consider it as one of those bad investment decisions you made and move on |
Re: Facebook Shares Opens At $42 As Trading Begins by iykak47: 8:35am On May 23, 2012 |
Who are those shouting few days ago that Facebook shares is the best, they should defend themselves. I really fancy the headline from Reuters about Facebook shares/ipo 'REALITY OVERTAKES HYPE'. |
Re: Facebook Shares Opens At $42 As Trading Begins by Nobody: 9:49am On May 23, 2012 |
iykak47: Who are those shouting few days ago that Facebook shares is the best, they should defend themselves.Is it everything that must be argued? If you do not want to buy then get out ![]() |
Re: Facebook Shares Opens At $42 As Trading Begins by iykak47: 1:40pm On May 23, 2012 |
blink182: Is it everything that must be argued? If you do not want to buy then get outwetin de do this mumu. your fada left nyashi. |
Re: Facebook Shares Opens At $42 As Trading Begins by Nobody: 1:53pm On May 23, 2012 |
iykak47: wetin de do this mumu. your fada left nyashi.I said 'get out', you definitely don't have money to even buy and just envious of those who can. ![]() |
Re: Facebook Shares Opens At $42 As Trading Begins by courage89(m): 3:27pm On May 23, 2012 |
Facebook, banks sued over pre-IPO analyst calls (Reuters) - Facebook Inc and banks including Morgan Stanley were sued by the social networking leader's shareholders, who claimed the defendants hid Facebook's weakened growth forecasts ahead of its $16 billion initial public offering. The defendants, who also include Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, were accused of concealing from investors during the IPO marketing process "a severe and pronounced reduction" in revenue growth forecasts, resulting from increased use of its app or website through mobile devices. Facebook went public last week. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan on Wednesday, according to a law firm for the plaintiffs. A day earlier, a similar lawsuit by a different investor was filed in a California state court, according to a law firm involved in that case. In the New York case, shareholders said research analysts at several underwriters had lowered their business forecasts for Facebook during the IPO process, but that these changes were "selectively disclosed by defendants to certain preferred investors" rather than to the public generally. "The value of Facebook common stock has declined substantially and plaintiffs and the class have sustained damages as a result," the complaint said. Representatives of Facebook and Morgan Stanley did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Facebook shares fell 18.4 percent from their $38 IPO price in the first three days of trading, reducing the value of stock sold in the IPO by more than $2.9 billion. (Reporting by Dan Levine in San Francisco and Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick and Lisa Von Ahn) |
Re: Facebook Shares Opens At $42 As Trading Begins by lastpage: 12:08pm On May 28, 2012 |
I knew some "mugun" MUST PAY! ![]() ![]() Here comes reality-101! ![]() Lastpage! |
Re: Facebook Shares Opens At $42 As Trading Begins by docchuks(m): 7:27am On Apr 28, 2016 |
Facebook First Quarter Earnings 2016. http://www.businessplannigeria.com.ng/facebook-first-quarter-earnings-2016/ |
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