The Ministry of Transport in collaboration with the Hanoi People's Committee and the Chinese Embassy in Vietnam held a ceremony to inaugurate the Cat Linh-Ha Dong metro line on January 13.
ceremony. and in true facebook fashion, zuckerberg announced the nuptials as a status update on the social networking site. how old are we? that ceremony seemed to go much smoother than facebook s ipo on friday. there was a traffic overload at nasdaq. and the stock price gained just 23 kwents for the day. here s the thing. and i m not cynical, but a cynic would say he got married the day after his ipo flopped. stop it, he did not. so we were talking about that instead of the ipo flopping. anybody here follow that story? did you follow it? because richard haass, it was going so poorly for him that the banks morgan stanley. morgan stanley especially, they had to backstop this because it was going to lose money on its first day. so the bankers furiously had to start buying up all of this facebook stock. by the way, and you know where they put it? they got the stock certificates and they went back and put it right next to e-pets and e-toys.
the facebook ipo got off to a rocky start yesterday with a traffic overload at the nasdaq, sending would-be investors error messages, combined with tepid movement in the stock price. that resulted in a gain of just about 23 cents for the day. joining me is ben mez reshgs was it successful? not the crazy success that a lot of people hoped. it wasn t flying how of the gate. i think overall, there was so much press and so much hype, it would have been hard to live up to it. so many people were wanting to buy shares it kind of went crazy. but the price never exploded. you couldn t call it a huge success. let s compare this, taking a look at how a few other big tech
other news, facebook founder and ceo mark zuckerberg coming off a very big week. just a day after taking his company public on friday, there s the photograph, the 28-year-old billionaire married his longtime girlfriend priscilla chan. guests arrived for what they thought was a graduation party for chan who finished medical school monday. instead treated to a surprise backyard marriage ceremony and many zuckerberg announced it as a stat us update on facebook. that went smoother than their ipo did friday. there was a traffic overload at nasdaq and the stock price gained just 23 cents for the day. more on this story to help us sort through it. an early look at the markets as we get all up in your business with steve sedgewick live in london. steve, i m looking at the front page of wall street journal, nasdaq s facebook problem. what was the problem on friday? a lot of people thought this was going to jump up into the