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Facebook Flops: Look Out Below! – Barron’sNews from Facebook Flops: Look Out Below! – Barron’s: After all the hype and anticipation, Facebook’s initial public offering turned out to be a disappointment that may bode poorly for investors in the company’s richly priced shares. Facebook (ticker: FB) sold 421 million shares Thursday at $ 38 after [...]

Another shot at GM as Hyundai re-ups for Super BowlNews from USA TODAY: As soon as General Motors said this week that it would quit paid ads on Facebook, Ford was on Twitter saying it has doubled-down on social and digital media — and hinted in a tweet that GM just didn’t know how to [...]

German Bund Yields Fall to Records as Crisis Escalates on GreeceNews from Bloomberg: German 10-year bonds rose for a fifth week, pushing yields down to records, as heightened concern Greece will withdraw from the euro area boosted demand for the region’s safest securities. Two-, five- and 30-year yields also declined to all-time lows while the [...]

Stock index futures point to modest reboundNews from Reuters: Tweet Share this Email Print A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Credit: Reuters/Brendan McDermid continues on Reuters >>> Read the full article . Related News: The Small Business Start-Up Kit: A Step-by-Step Legal Guide Start your business with confidence using [...]

Weekly Claims Hold Steady as Jobs Picture Still MurkyNews from CNBC.com: New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits were unchanged last week, according to government data on Thursday that will do little to ease concerns about a recent slowdown in jobs growth. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits held steady at a seasonally adjusted 370,000, the [...]

JPMorgan: Let the shareholder lawsuits begin; two are filedNews from USA TODAY: NEW YORK (AP) – Shareholders of JPMorgan Chase(JPM) have filed two lawsuits against the biggest U.S. bank, accusing it and its leaders of taking excessive risk and causing the recently disclosed $ 2 billion trading loss. The company revealed the loss last week, [...]

JPMorgan: Let the shareholder lawsuits begin; two are filedNews from USA TODAY: NEW YORK (AP) – Shareholders of JPMorgan Chase(JPM) have filed two lawsuits against the biggest U.S. bank, accusing it and its leaders of taking excessive risk and causing the recently disclosed $ 2 billion trading loss. The company revealed the loss last week, [...]

Assessing the Odds of a Greek Euro ExitNews from BusinessWeek: Has a Greek exit from the euro zone become inevitable — or even desirable? Some European leaders appeared ready to let Greece walk, after an anti-austerity backlash in May 6 elections left the country without a government. “The future of Greece in the euro zone [...]

Yahoo soap opera features new cast of leadersNews from The Associated Press: Yahoo soap opera features new cast of leaders By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Technology Writer – 38 minutes ago  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo’s dysfunctional turnaround efforts have morphed into a Silicon Valley soap opera, one that has taken another strange twist with the [...]

JPMorgan executives expected to leave over lossNews from Reuters: 1 of 2. Commuters are reflected in stone as they walk past the JP Morgan headquarters in New York on May 11, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Eduardo Munoz By David Henry Sun May 13, 2012 8:58pm EDT (Reuters) – Three executives involved with the failed hedging strategy that [...]