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 Facebook investors left guessing after Nasdaq glitch (Reuters) - Individual investors were left guessing for more than two hours on Friday about whether their buy and sell orders for newly issued Facebook shares had been actually executed. The Nasdaq Stock Market, where Facebook is listed, had problems sending electronic messages back to the brokerages that handle orders from individual, or "retail," investors, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation. Because the electronic acknowledgements didn't come back from the exchange, the brokers were unable to tell their clients that trades had been executed. ... Publ.Date : 2012-05-18T19:14:01Z Facebook investors left guessing after Nasdaq glitch (Reuters) - Individual investors were left in the dark for hours on Friday about whether their buy and sell orders for newly issued Facebook shares had actually been executed, in the latest of a series high-profile exchange glitches in recent years. Massive demand for the social networking giant's initial public offering, which set a trading volume record for U.S. market debuts, led to a 45-minute delay in the start of trading in the stock. But it was what happened after trading started that had some on Wall Street fuming. ... Publ.Date : 2012-05-18T22:03:18Z Scramble for Facebook stock ends in "Face-flop" NEW YORK (Reuters) - On Monday, 74-year-old Betty Tanguilig told her financial adviser to liquidate a $400,000 account and put all the proceeds into Facebook Inc IPO shares. Her adviser, Alan Haft, agreed to sell only $46,000 of the $400,000 account, one of several the retiree has. But at about 6:00 a.m. EDT Friday, Haft heard from his brokerage firm, E*Trade Financial Corp, that Tanguilig did not get any IPO shares. Tanguilig, a retired mother of eight, was furious. She has been on Facebook for many years and regularly logs in. "I had to have it," she said. ... Publ.Date : 2012-05-18T21:01:50Z Kelly Brook's dress causes a stir: Twitter highlights from Cannes
Publ.Date : 2012-05-20T12:04:51Z Historic Facebook debut falls short of expectations
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