Investment

Budget Battles

  • When This Hedge Fund Star Talks, Wall Street Listens

    By Suzanne McGee, The Fiscal Times

    Once, it was only Alan Greenspan who commanded this kind of clout: the ability to simply hold up his hand, cause the financial markets to pause attentively, issue some cryptic or forthright thought (...

  • How Nasdaq Screwed Up the Facebook IPO

    By Nancy Miller, The Fiscal Times

    After a lot of “we are ready for the onslaught” preening, the Nasdaq stock exchange fell apart from the minute Facebook (FB) was released for trading.

  • Putting Facebook’s IPO in Perspective

    By Yuval Rosenberg

    Let's keep some perspective here. For all the superlatives being tossed around regarding the Facebook IPO – “biggest technology IPO,” “history-making,” “record-breaking” – it's worth keeping in mind...

  • Facebook’s IPO: Why the First-Day Pop Doesn’t Matter

    By Suzanne McGee, The Fiscal Times

    The most important and most watched numbers on Facebook’s massive IPO are all in – all but one that is. We know that Facebook’s underwriters priced its stock at $38 a share, at the top of the higher...

  • Pop Goes the Facebook IPO

    By Alexei Anishchuk, Reuters

    Facebook Inc is set to raise up to $18.4 billion in its IPO and become the first U.S. company to be worth more than $100 billion at its debut, as investors bet on a big pop in the stock when it...