Last week we told you Facebook went public and it went… okay.
At the time, the shares had just stayed about even. This week did not go so well for Facebook. Shares dropped to as low as $31.77 in trading — a 16% drop from the IPO price.
If that weren’t bad enough, now Facebook is being sued because it disclosed some information to some of the investment banks warning them that advertising revenues were off significantly. That kind of information would change an investor’s valuation of the firm, but since it wasn’t publicly available information the banks stood to make a killing by shorting the stock or waiting until the share price dropped.
Whatever happens with the lawsuit, Zuckerburg and his investors came out okay, finally able to trade millions or billions worth of shares that they’ve held for quite some time.
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Thanks for the mention!
That detroit article was interesting. Thanks for bringing it to my attention!