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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>by Aaron Glantz, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/housing/story/state-program-struggling-homeowners-has/\">\u003cstrong>The Bay Citizen\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/BayCitizenLogo1.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/BayCitizenLogo1.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"BayCitizenLogo\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-66899\">\u003c/a>On June 15, Wells Fargo is set to auction off Gayline Hudson’s home in Oakland’s Fruitvale District. Hudson, who bought the two-bedroom house for $370,000 in 2005, lost her job as an adult education teacher when the Oakland Unified School District laid her off last June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 44-year-old now owes more than $19,000 on her mortgage, an amount she says is impossible to make up. 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(Michael Short/The Bay Citizen)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m fully aware that I lost my job and I need to find other gainful employment, but at the same time, people need help,” she said. “And everywhere I go, the door is closed in my face.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hudson is the type of borrower that a $2 billion government program called \u003ca href=\"http://keepyourhomecalifornia.org/\">Keep Your Home California \u003c/a>was intended to help. But more than two years after President Barack Obama announced the delivery of the first $700 million installment for the initiative, the California Housing Finance Agency, which administers the program, has spent just 5 percent of the money – $93 million, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/documents/keep-your-home-california-may-2012-us/\">according to the agency’s most recent filings with the U.S. Treasury Department\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fewer than 8,000 borrowers have received help out of 101,337 Californians the agency estimated would receive assistance in an agreement with the federal government 18 months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep Your Home California is designed to subsidize mortgage payments for unemployed borrowers and reduce debt for people whose homes significantly declined in value during the housing crisis. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the program’s success relies on the good will of the banking industry, and most are balking at rewriting mortgage agreements. At the same time, the program has eaten up an unusually large portion of its fund to create and promote the largely unsuccessful program. Of the nation’s five largest mortgage servicers, only one, Bank of America, is participating in the principal reduction program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The banks got the money that they needed, but homeowners haven't got what was promised,” said Christy Romero, special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, which funds the program. “Ultimately, TARP was not supposed to be a bank bailout; it was supposed to help homeowners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the agency’s most recent monthly filing with the federal Treasury Department, more than a quarter of the federal funds spent so far have gone to administration, including marketing; outside, legal and professional services; and salaries and travel for program staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the private sector, overhead costs on mortgage origination typically average about 1 percent of the cost of the mortgage, said Kenneth Rosen, chairman of the Fisher Center for Real Estate & Urban Economics at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s embarrassing,” Rosen said of the mortgage program. “It seems like a lot of bureaucracy where they are not getting anything done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Diane Richardson, legislative director of California Housing Finance Agency, agreed that the program has been slow to take hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richardson said a major hurdle has been getting banks involved. To date, most large banks – including Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, Citibank and Ally Financial – have refused to participate in the $779 million principal reduction program. Under the original plan, the housing agency would provide up to $50,000 to write down a borrower’s debt if the bank matched it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program, which had helped just 221 borrowers as of April 30, according to agency’s Treasury Department report, was modified May 7 when the agency announced it was removing a requirement that banks match the taxpayers’ contribution to a mortgage write-down. The maximum taxpayer contribution also was increased to $100,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought, honestly, when we said, ‘We’ll match you,’ that there would be takers. I thought they’d be jumping up and down, but the interest wasn’t there,” Richardson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move spurred the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to announce May 7 that it would instruct the government-supported mortgage companies to participate in the program. The two firms own more than 60 percent of California mortgages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials said they hoped the change would jump-start the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will make a huge difference because there are a great number of people who have loans that are owned by Fannie and Freddie who are distressed and struggling,” Richardson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes a much greater number of people potentially eligible,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the move has not yet resulted in a similar response from banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Tom Goyda, spokesman for Wells Fargo, said it was too early to tell if his company would join the program. Susan Fitzpatrick, spokeswoman for Ally Financial, said in an e-mail only that the firm would “offer programs to our customers that follow our investor guidelines.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dustin Hobbs, spokesman for the California Mortgage Bankers Association, said he understood why many banks were reluctant to sign on. Even if they do not bear the cost of the principal reduction themselves, mortgage lenders stand to lose the “prospective income” of interest payments on that debt – an amount that often exceeds the amount of the debt itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fewer homeowners to get help\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the taxpayers bearing the full cost of each mortgage write-down, the California Housing Finance Agency cut by two-thirds the number of troubled homeowners it can afford to help – from more than 25,000 to less than 9,000, according to its most recent filings with the Treasury Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romero, the special inspector general, said the California Housing Finance Agency’s reduction in the number of homeowners it intends to help represents a failure of its overseer, the Treasury Department, to provide proper oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state goals are moving targets,” said Romero, who functions as the Treasury Department’s in-house watchdog. “If you have no goal post, then there's no accountability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, the inspector general issued a report showing the program largely had failed to help homeowners across the country. Although the Treasury Department had earmarked $7.6 billion for 18 states and the District of Columbia, only $217 million had been spent nationally as of this year, and only 30,640 homeowners had received assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the report, the Treasury Department allocated money without “producing measurable goals” for states on how many homeowners would be helped. The states have until the end of 2017 to spend the money. And the report criticized the Treasury Department for approving state programs, including California's, before large banks, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had agreed to participate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tim Massad, an assistant secretary of the Treasury, said the report “misses the mark by not acknowledging the hard work of participating states and the innovative ways they are preventing foreclosures in their local communities.” He said the program is crafted “in ways that suit local conditions and have already kept tens of thousands of families in their homes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Waiting for aid\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the start of the program, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/documents/keep-your-home-california-may-2012-us/\">California agency’s Treasury Department filings\u003c/a> show, just 27 percent of applications for Keep Your Home California programs have been approved, while 35 percent have been denied. The remaining third have either withdrawn their application or still were waiting for an answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s crazy,” said Hudson, the unemployed Oakland teacher, who is ineligible for a principal reduction under the Keep Your Home program because her lender, Wells Fargo, does not participate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My house has lost most of its value, so it’s not like they’re going to make any money on the foreclosure,” she said. “Why won’t they let me live here – especially if the government would pay for it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, homeowners across the state face the loss of their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve done everything that I asked them to do, faxed them and called them, and I keep getting denied,” said Raymond Rivera of Chula Vista.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera, who was laid off from his job as a substance abuse counselor in 2009, still owes $369,000 on a three-bedroom condo he bought in 2006 with a loan from the California Housing Finance Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last June, Rivera declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy, and in January, the agency declared him “conditionally eligible” for a principal reduction under Keep Your Home California, in part because his home has lost half its value and is now worth just $181,000, according to real estate website Zillow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five months later, however, the housing agency still has not given final approval for his principal reduction. Instead, the agency is pushing for a short sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This makes no sense to me,” Rivera said. “If I don’t make enough to cover the loan, then why aren’t they using their funds to get me the government assistance that’s available?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Bay Citizen, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. Learn more at www.baycitizen.org\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Of the nation’s five largest mortgage servicers, only one, Bank of America, is participating in the principal reduction program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The banks got the money that they needed, but homeowners haven't got what was promised,” said Christy Romero, special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, which funds the program. “Ultimately, TARP was not supposed to be a bank bailout; it was supposed to help homeowners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the agency’s most recent monthly filing with the federal Treasury Department, more than a quarter of the federal funds spent so far have gone to administration, including marketing; outside, legal and professional services; and salaries and travel for program staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the private sector, overhead costs on mortgage origination typically average about 1 percent of the cost of the mortgage, said Kenneth Rosen, chairman of the Fisher Center for Real Estate & Urban Economics at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s embarrassing,” Rosen said of the mortgage program. “It seems like a lot of bureaucracy where they are not getting anything done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Diane Richardson, legislative director of California Housing Finance Agency, agreed that the program has been slow to take hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richardson said a major hurdle has been getting banks involved. To date, most large banks – including Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, Citibank and Ally Financial – have refused to participate in the $779 million principal reduction program. Under the original plan, the housing agency would provide up to $50,000 to write down a borrower’s debt if the bank matched it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program, which had helped just 221 borrowers as of April 30, according to agency’s Treasury Department report, was modified May 7 when the agency announced it was removing a requirement that banks match the taxpayers’ contribution to a mortgage write-down. The maximum taxpayer contribution also was increased to $100,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought, honestly, when we said, ‘We’ll match you,’ that there would be takers. I thought they’d be jumping up and down, but the interest wasn’t there,” Richardson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move spurred the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to announce May 7 that it would instruct the government-supported mortgage companies to participate in the program. The two firms own more than 60 percent of California mortgages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials said they hoped the change would jump-start the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will make a huge difference because there are a great number of people who have loans that are owned by Fannie and Freddie who are distressed and struggling,” Richardson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes a much greater number of people potentially eligible,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the move has not yet resulted in a similar response from banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Tom Goyda, spokesman for Wells Fargo, said it was too early to tell if his company would join the program. Susan Fitzpatrick, spokeswoman for Ally Financial, said in an e-mail only that the firm would “offer programs to our customers that follow our investor guidelines.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dustin Hobbs, spokesman for the California Mortgage Bankers Association, said he understood why many banks were reluctant to sign on. 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Like \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/05/15/laos-target-price-for-facebook-45-per-share/\">revenue for the state budget\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/ontheblock/2012/05/18/how-will-the-facebook-ipo-affect-local-real-estate/?tsp=1\">local real estate prices\u003c/a>, and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_19862712\">general Bay Area economy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may diminish whatever \u003ca href=\"http://bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view/20120520why_i_really_like_that_facebooks_ipo_fell_flat\">Schadenfreude\u003c/a> you -- who can't afford face cream right now let alone Facebook -- may be feeling over the following headlines referring to Facebook's big debut: \u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Faceplant for Facebook (\u003ca href=\"http://www.marketwatch.com/\">MarketWatch\u003c/a>)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Big Volume, Little Upside (\u003ca href=\"http://www.cnbc.com/\">CNBC\u003c/a>)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/05/18/facebook-opens-at-42-05-in-debut-but-falls-quickly/?hp\">Scant Gain for Facebook Shares on First Day of Trading\u003c/a> (NY Times)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Facebook off to faltering public start (\u003ca href=\"http://www.ft.com/home/us\">Financial Times\u003c/a>)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Those all refer to the fact that shares of the highly anticipated offering finished just about a half-percent over the opening price -- and only with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-facebook-trading-20120518,0,6622700.story\">help of big buy orders from the underwriter\u003c/a>, to boot. The Big Facebook Bang was also \u003ca href=\"http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/05/18/facebooks-debut-marred-by-trading-glitches/?hp\">marred by trading glitches\u003c/a> on the Nasdaq exchange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple of days ago Sam Hamadeh, CEO of IPO research firm PrivCo, handed us \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/05/16/analysis-facebook-ipo-worth-25-per-share/\">seven reasons to sit out the Facebook IPO\u003c/a>. Now that the IPO has launched, Hamadeh thinks the entire thing was a bit of a fiasco. Here's an edited transcript from my interview with him after the bell...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: So what happened today?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SAM HAMADEH, PRIVCO CEO\u003c/strong>: The first trade was expected to go at 10am ET; at 9:15 early indications of the first clearing price was $45 per share. Once that price hit the tape, a lot of new sell orders came in hoping to get that price. That gradually kept ticking the shares down, unexpectedly. So they changed the first trade to 11 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>Obviously this is an enormous disappointment for people in the Bay Area... I think this probably represents the closing of the IPO window for awhile...\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Throughout the day it seemed like a lot of people got extremely nervous. A lot of people were expecting an easy flip, that the stock could go up 50% or maybe 100%, and once that clearly wasn't happening, it very rapidly started to approach the IPO price of $38 per share. The underwriters actually had to step in and put in what are called supporting bids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a standard part of the agreement that if necessary, underwriters will step in with their own capital and provide liquidity in the first hours or couple of days of trading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All through the last half hour of trading you saw it trading consistently at 38,38.01, and all those buy orders were coming from the underwriters. They were effectively artificially supporting the price. Without them stepping in, the stock would have clearly dropped below the IPO price in what's called on Wall street a busted IPO, a trade below the offering price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a big disappointment for almost anybody. But I can't say we were shocked given it was so overvalued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to why this happened, one of the missteps was first raising the price range. That clearly would have left some upside for other people. They got a little too greedy. Then two days ago, increasing the total offering by 25%, adding another $4 billion dollars-plus to this offering, really left almost no one left who didn't get to buy. And without anyone left, there just wasn't the demand there to support the stock. Very stunning development for most observers. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: How common is it for underwriters to have to step in to support the price?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SAM HAMADEH\u003c/strong>: It's not unusual to make the guarantee, but it is unusual to have to make good on it. The last major example is Zynga's IPO in December, when it went public at 10, shares immediately started plummeting and underwriters stepped in with a supporting bid at 9. It closed just above 9 per share. Still a busted IPO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clearly they had to step in today, and it augurs poorly for what will happen to the stock once that implicit guarantee goes away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing to keep in mind, with an $18 billion float, there were 550 million shares traded today, which was bigger than the offering. That means every share traded hands 1 ½ times. The underwriting fee pool was only $190 million. So the underwriters can't risk more than they made on the deal. Their ability to keep it at $38 was very limited by just the size of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: What about the dive in related social media stocks like Zynga, Pandora, and LinkedIn? How do you interpret that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SAM HAMADEH\u003c/strong>: There's no question that companies had risen the last couple of weeks based on an expected Facebook IPO pop, or at least not fallen as much as they otherwise would have. I think a lot of investors got nervous once it became clear this pop wasn't coming; you saw a lot of shorting on those stocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook isn't shortable; it doesn't have options that trade on it. So if you're trying to hedge, or lets' say you're an employee or an early investor and your shares are locked up for the next six months, the way to bet against Facebook would be to sell other companies as proxy investments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zynga is probably the closest proxy investment, given that some 11 to 12 percent of Facebook's revenues come from Zynga. Around 11:30 a.m., shortly after it became clear that this pop was going to not be a pop but in fact be a fizzle, massive short positions were initiated. In particular, one large hedge fund placed a massive negative bet on Zynga and it caused it to crash 14 percent in a matter of literally 60 seconds. When that happened it triggered Nasdaq rules to halt trading temporarily in any stock that falls over 10 percent in less than five mintues. That happened twice to Zynga today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clearly people wanted to get out of Facebook or at least hedge their position in it, and Zynga and some of the other social media stocks were the closest proxy investments to make bets against Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: So do you think this is the official popping of whatever bubble there was?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SAM HAMADEH\u003c/strong>: Obviously this is an enormous disappointment for people in the Bay Area. Even if they didn't have stock in Facebook, they at least have stakes indirectly in social media companies they were hoping would get acquired, would be able to go public in the summer or after Labor Day, and the halo effect was supposed to carry into Spotify, Branchout, Airbnb and so forth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think to us at PrivCo this probably represents the closing of the IPO window for awhile, and any company that's going to try to go public is going to have to dial back on the proportion of the IPO that represents insider sales. Facebook got pretty greedy at the end, with 57 percent of the offering going to insider selling. That's a remarkable percentage. There's only two other IPOs in the past year according to our tracking that had more than 50 percent of the IPO go to insiders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, no more raising the price range every few days. Third, no more raising the amount of shares being offered. All those games are over. Clearly Facebook overreached. I don't think this is the headline people wanted going into tomorrow's newspaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: What happens Monday?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SAM HAMADEH\u003c/strong>: Morgan Stanley looks horrible right now. The Nasdaq looks horrible. There are people who own IPO shares or bought this morning – they \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/nasdaq-glitch-delays-some-investors-of-facebook-ipo-from-knowing-if-trades-were-completed/2012/05/18/gIQAFY8MZU_story.html\">haven't even received trade confirmations\u003c/a> yet. There are millions of shares traded that aren't even technically cleared yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nasdaq did make extra efforts to do a dress rehearsal, looping in all of the regional exchanges affiliated with it. But even with that you had some major hiccups, the trades not clearing, the delay in the opening, the Zynga flash crash. Morgan Stanley's embarrassed, Nasdaq's embarrassed. I think they're going to blame Facebook. They'll say these guys wer pulled kicking and screaming into this process. Mark Zuckerberg only showed up for two of the roadshow stops and barely took questions. He didn'teven bother to put on a dress shirt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a massive IPO, 550 million shares traded, a new record. They're going to blame Facebook management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they made big compromises. Nasdaq gave Facebook a two –digit ticker symbol -- Nasdaq stocks are typically a four digits. They agreed to put them in the Nasdaq 100 a year early. They changed the rules just for Facebook, to get the deal. Morgan Stanley took a massive cut in fees. The fees for this deal were only 1.1 percent; the average IPO fees are between 5 and 8 percent of a deal. They did this becase they were hoping new tech IPOs would come to Nasdaq, Morgan Stanley would have bragging rights, getting it done and everyone making money. That's all gone now mostly. None of us watching are saying this is a beautifully executed day.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Well, not everyone was so glum. Some \u003ca href=\"http://storify.com/kqednews/facebook-ipo-it-s-complicated\">other reactions from around the web\u003c/a>, Storified by KQED's Ian Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also take a look at our Fill in the Blank exercise: I think Faceboo's $104 billion valuation is...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://storify.com/kqednews/i-think-facebook-s-dollar-104-billion-valuation-is\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/facebook-logo4.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-65792\" title=\"facebook-logo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/facebook-logo4-300x112.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"112\">\u003c/a>Besides creating the potential for a new crop of 20-somethings to block your driveway with their Lamborghinis, the Facebook IPO has some other significant consequences riding on it. Like \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/05/15/laos-target-price-for-facebook-45-per-share/\">revenue for the state budget\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/ontheblock/2012/05/18/how-will-the-facebook-ipo-affect-local-real-estate/?tsp=1\">local real estate prices\u003c/a>, and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_19862712\">general Bay Area economy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may diminish whatever \u003ca href=\"http://bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view/20120520why_i_really_like_that_facebooks_ipo_fell_flat\">Schadenfreude\u003c/a> you -- who can't afford face cream right now let alone Facebook -- may be feeling over the following headlines referring to Facebook's big debut: \u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Faceplant for Facebook (\u003ca href=\"http://www.marketwatch.com/\">MarketWatch\u003c/a>)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Big Volume, Little Upside (\u003ca href=\"http://www.cnbc.com/\">CNBC\u003c/a>)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/05/18/facebook-opens-at-42-05-in-debut-but-falls-quickly/?hp\">Scant Gain for Facebook Shares on First Day of Trading\u003c/a> (NY Times)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Facebook off to faltering public start (\u003ca href=\"http://www.ft.com/home/us\">Financial Times\u003c/a>)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Those all refer to the fact that shares of the highly anticipated offering finished just about a half-percent over the opening price -- and only with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-facebook-trading-20120518,0,6622700.story\">help of big buy orders from the underwriter\u003c/a>, to boot. The Big Facebook Bang was also \u003ca href=\"http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/05/18/facebooks-debut-marred-by-trading-glitches/?hp\">marred by trading glitches\u003c/a> on the Nasdaq exchange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple of days ago Sam Hamadeh, CEO of IPO research firm PrivCo, handed us \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/05/16/analysis-facebook-ipo-worth-25-per-share/\">seven reasons to sit out the Facebook IPO\u003c/a>. Now that the IPO has launched, Hamadeh thinks the entire thing was a bit of a fiasco. Here's an edited transcript from my interview with him after the bell...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: So what happened today?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SAM HAMADEH, PRIVCO CEO\u003c/strong>: The first trade was expected to go at 10am ET; at 9:15 early indications of the first clearing price was $45 per share. Once that price hit the tape, a lot of new sell orders came in hoping to get that price. That gradually kept ticking the shares down, unexpectedly. So they changed the first trade to 11 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>Obviously this is an enormous disappointment for people in the Bay Area... I think this probably represents the closing of the IPO window for awhile...\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Throughout the day it seemed like a lot of people got extremely nervous. A lot of people were expecting an easy flip, that the stock could go up 50% or maybe 100%, and once that clearly wasn't happening, it very rapidly started to approach the IPO price of $38 per share. The underwriters actually had to step in and put in what are called supporting bids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a standard part of the agreement that if necessary, underwriters will step in with their own capital and provide liquidity in the first hours or couple of days of trading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All through the last half hour of trading you saw it trading consistently at 38,38.01, and all those buy orders were coming from the underwriters. They were effectively artificially supporting the price. Without them stepping in, the stock would have clearly dropped below the IPO price in what's called on Wall street a busted IPO, a trade below the offering price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a big disappointment for almost anybody. But I can't say we were shocked given it was so overvalued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to why this happened, one of the missteps was first raising the price range. That clearly would have left some upside for other people. They got a little too greedy. Then two days ago, increasing the total offering by 25%, adding another $4 billion dollars-plus to this offering, really left almost no one left who didn't get to buy. And without anyone left, there just wasn't the demand there to support the stock. Very stunning development for most observers. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: How common is it for underwriters to have to step in to support the price?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SAM HAMADEH\u003c/strong>: It's not unusual to make the guarantee, but it is unusual to have to make good on it. The last major example is Zynga's IPO in December, when it went public at 10, shares immediately started plummeting and underwriters stepped in with a supporting bid at 9. It closed just above 9 per share. Still a busted IPO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clearly they had to step in today, and it augurs poorly for what will happen to the stock once that implicit guarantee goes away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing to keep in mind, with an $18 billion float, there were 550 million shares traded today, which was bigger than the offering. That means every share traded hands 1 ½ times. The underwriting fee pool was only $190 million. So the underwriters can't risk more than they made on the deal. Their ability to keep it at $38 was very limited by just the size of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: What about the dive in related social media stocks like Zynga, Pandora, and LinkedIn? How do you interpret that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SAM HAMADEH\u003c/strong>: There's no question that companies had risen the last couple of weeks based on an expected Facebook IPO pop, or at least not fallen as much as they otherwise would have. 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When that happened it triggered Nasdaq rules to halt trading temporarily in any stock that falls over 10 percent in less than five mintues. That happened twice to Zynga today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clearly people wanted to get out of Facebook or at least hedge their position in it, and Zynga and some of the other social media stocks were the closest proxy investments to make bets against Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: So do you think this is the official popping of whatever bubble there was?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SAM HAMADEH\u003c/strong>: Obviously this is an enormous disappointment for people in the Bay Area. Even if they didn't have stock in Facebook, they at least have stakes indirectly in social media companies they were hoping would get acquired, would be able to go public in the summer or after Labor Day, and the halo effect was supposed to carry into Spotify, Branchout, Airbnb and so forth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think to us at PrivCo this probably represents the closing of the IPO window for awhile, and any company that's going to try to go public is going to have to dial back on the proportion of the IPO that represents insider sales. Facebook got pretty greedy at the end, with 57 percent of the offering going to insider selling. That's a remarkable percentage. There's only two other IPOs in the past year according to our tracking that had more than 50 percent of the IPO go to insiders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, no more raising the price range every few days. Third, no more raising the amount of shares being offered. All those games are over. Clearly Facebook overreached. I don't think this is the headline people wanted going into tomorrow's newspaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: What happens Monday?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SAM HAMADEH\u003c/strong>: Morgan Stanley looks horrible right now. The Nasdaq looks horrible. There are people who own IPO shares or bought this morning – they \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/nasdaq-glitch-delays-some-investors-of-facebook-ipo-from-knowing-if-trades-were-completed/2012/05/18/gIQAFY8MZU_story.html\">haven't even received trade confirmations\u003c/a> yet. There are millions of shares traded that aren't even technically cleared yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nasdaq did make extra efforts to do a dress rehearsal, looping in all of the regional exchanges affiliated with it. But even with that you had some major hiccups, the trades not clearing, the delay in the opening, the Zynga flash crash. Morgan Stanley's embarrassed, Nasdaq's embarrassed. 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