Thursday, May 24, 2012

Facebook Is Totally Dumping Nasdaq


Nasdaq messed up Facebook's IPO, and now Facebook is totally going to show them by taking its stock away from Nasdaq and hooking up with Nasdaq's frenemy, the New York Stock Exchange, according to HuffPo.

That is the latest gossip from the world of Facebook, whose stock today managed to dead-cat bounce by more than 3 percent to exactly $32. Apparently the analyst at Needham took mercy on Facebook and rated it a "buy" with a $40 price target. It's now down just 15.9 percent from its IPO price of $38 on Friday. So congratulations on all that.

Reuters and Bloomberg are both reporting, citing an anonymous source, that Facebook and the NYSE have been furiously sexting each other about Facebook dumping Nasdaq and taking up with the NYSE instead.

One of the many, many problems with Facebook's IPO was that the Nasdaq wasn't prepared to handle the onslaught of flash-trading robots that descended on Facebook's IPO Friday morning and picked it clean….

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