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Michael Johnston: Today is the day: Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) finally becomes a public company, trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol FB. The highly anticipated ETF is expected to bring massive trading volumes, and interest should remain elevated for the next several sessions. Read more…
Eric Dutram: As the economy starts to improve, the IPO market has become increasingly popular among a variety of investors. Many of these newly public companies are either in the tech or social media space, giving investors access to firms that are in one of the few high growth areas in the developed world. Read more…
Kevin Grewal: The Durbin Amendment seeks to reduce credit and debit card networks from imposing anti-competitive restrictions and high transaction fees on small businesses, merchants and government agencies and could provide positive support for some large-cap and regional Read more…
For better worse, the rapid growth of the exchange traded products business has delivered to investors some, shall we say, interesting concepts. Sure, plenty of new ETFs and ETNs Read more…
Prateek Mehrotra, Chief Investment Officer for iSectors discusses with CNBC how to use ETFs to play the IPO market. In 2010 there have been 66 IPOs versus 14 in all of 2009, and the IPO pipeline is growing. Prateek likes the First Trust US IPO Index (NYSE:FPX), the PowerShares Listed Private Equity Read more…
Global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity is at its highest level since late 2009, providing a glimmer of hope to investors struggling to decipher stock and bond markets roiled by a weakening Read more…
“Everybody loves the romance of an IPO — a company going public with the potential to deliver huge profits to those investors on the ground floor. But the reality of initial public offerings are Read more…
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