News tagged with stock trades

Facebook stock down 3 pct to new low for close

(AP) — Facebook's stock fell 3 percent and closed Monday at a new low.

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Where are Facebook's friends? Stock slide deepens (Update)

(AP) -- Facebook's newly public stock is sliding further on its third trading day as investors reconsider how much the social network is worth.

Technology / Business

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 5

Where are Facebook's friends? Stock down after IPO (Update)

(AP) -- Facebook's stock is tumbling well below its $38 IPO price in the social network's second day of trading as a public company on Monday.

Technology / Business

created May 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Nasdaq glitch confuses investors of Facebook IPO

(AP) -- Some investors who thought they had bought Facebook shares at the opening of trading were left without knowing for hours whether they had received the shares.

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created May 19, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

The wisdom of retail traders: Study shows retail investors can predict future stock returns

A forthcoming paper in the Journal of Finance by Professor Paul Tetlock, Roger F. Murray Associate Professor of Finance at Columbia Business School, and Eric Kelley, Assistant Professor, Finance, the Eller College of Man ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Millennial Media shares nearly double in debut

(AP) -- Shares of Millennial Media nearly doubled in the mobile advertising company's market debut Thursday.

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created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Buy-sell orders can predict market's performance

Investors may have access to a process similar to one used by racetrack bettors that could make playing the financial markets substantially less risky.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Megaupload founder joked about his 'hacker' past

(AP) -- Two years ago, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom joked in emails with his new neighbors in New Zealand about his bad-boy reputation before telling them his criminal past was behind him and he was coming ...

Technology / Internet

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Angie's List stock rises in first trading day

(AP) -- The stock of consumer-reviews site Angie's List Inc. increased 16 percent on its first day of trading Thursday, showing ongoing investor appetite for Internet companies.

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created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NYSE site hobbled by outages, firm reports

(AP) -- The New York Stock Exchange's website was apparently hobbled twice Monday, possibly the result of computer attacks as part of the anti-Wall Street protests, according to a company that monitors website response times.

Technology / Internet

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Algorithmic trading to replace humans in the stock market

(PhysOrg.com) -- The UK Government’s Foresight panel, led by Dame Clara Furse, has released a working paper that points out that algorithmic trading, or high frequency trading, will soon replace human decision making when it comes to the stock ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Sep 14, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 17 | with audio podcast report

Hedge funds sold stocks quickly while mutual fund investors suffered larger losses during crisis

A new study of stock trading during the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009 found that hedge funds sold their stocks much more aggressively than mutual funds at the first signs of poor performance.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hong Kong arrests man over stock exchange hacking

Hong Kong police said on Friday they had arrested a 29-year-old man over a cyber attack on the city's stock exchange website which halted trading in the shares of seven companies.

Technology / Internet

created Aug 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hong Kong bourse hit by 'malicious hacking'

The Hong Kong stock exchange said Wednesday its website had been hit by "malicious hacking", forcing trading in at least seven companies that issued price-sensitive information to be suspended.

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created Aug 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

US imposes new rules on high-speed traders

US regulators on Tuesday announced new rules aimed at shedding light on the secretive industry of computerized high-speed trading, which has been blamed for destabilizing financial markets.

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created Jul 26, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 36