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Italy’s Luna Rossa Piranha won the race Sunday, and skipper Jimmy Spithill‘s hard-charging Oracle Team USA forced Team Korea into a critical penalty around the final gate, giving Spithill second place and the overall championship of the San Francisco regatta by a single point.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/State-Democrats-Pension-changes-coming-3816998.php\">State Democrats: Pension changes coming\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Ten months after Gov. Jerry Brown proposed sweeping changes to public employee pensions, Democratic legislative leaders say they are finally poised to take action on the issue this week. They'll have to if any changes are to occur. The state Legislature ends its two-year session at midnight Friday, and bills that haven't been approved by then die.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/oakland-tribune/ci_21408508/celebrated-architect-frank-gehry-design-new-facebook-building\">Celebrated architect Frank Gehry to design new Facebook building in Menlo Park\u003c/a> (Bay Area News Group)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Award-winning architect Frank Gehry may not have his own Facebook page, but he's become such a good friend of the social networking giant that he is going to design its new West Campus building in Menlo Park. \"Frank was the perfect architect,\" Facebook spokesman Slater Tow said about the man who has designed such celebrated works as the Guggenheim Museum in Spain and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles. \"We wanted someone to understand our culture and Frank got it. We consider it to be a pretty big honor.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/oakland-tribune/ci_21409331/feds-fly-helicopters-over-oakland-san-francisco-pacifica\">Feds to fly helicopters over Oakland, San Francisco, Pacifica measuring radiation\u003c/a> (Contra Costa Times)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Helicopters will fly across San Francisco, Pacifica and Oakland from Monday through Saturday recording natural radiation levels, federal authorities said. The flyovers are part of a research project involving the Department of Homeland Security, and the helicopters will fly in a grid pattern about 300 feet above the ground, covering about 70 square miles. 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The ground below the town of Brawley near the Salton Sea could continue to rumble for several days, experts at the California Institute of Technology said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2012/08/company-neglects-safety-sfo-bag-screeners-say\">Company neglects safety, SFO baggage screeners say\u003c/a> (SF Examiner)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Baggage screeners at San Francisco International Airport allege that dozens if not hundreds of bags identified by X-ray machines as high-risk bomb threats are loaded onto planes each day without any human inspection in a clear violation of federal rules. The screeners work for Covenant Aviation Security, the company charged with baggage and checkpoint security at SFO. They complain that company managers routinely cover up such security breaches and retaliate against employees who complain too loudly.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/oakland-tribune/ci_21409367/is-highway-37-destined-become-new-waterway\">Is Highway 37 destined to become a new waterway?\u003c/a> (Oakland Tribune)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>At times the water laps close to the edges of Highway 37 between Vallejo and Marin County -- and also very close to thousands of motorists who use it every day for work, commerce or fun. Most of the heavily traveled two- to four-lane road between Interstate 80 and Highway 101, is only 1 to 2 feet above sea level. Caltrans says it has the lowest elevations of any Bay Area highway and some portions passing through marshes even dip well below that. And that, plus worsening traffic congestion, are why state and environmental groups are so concerned that parts of Highway 37 could some day disappear under water due to such natural events as rising ocean levels and earthquakes.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_21405849\">California jokes from late-night comedians\u003c/a> (Oakland Tribune)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>California often provides fodder for comedy. Here are a few recent late-night examples: \"The Mars Rover is starting to send back pictures. After studying photos taken by the robot, scientists are saying that Mars resembles California. 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The next strongest job markets nationwide were the San Francisco-San Mateo-Marin region, which rose 3.6 percent, and the Houston-Sugarland region, which reported a 3.3 percent increase… The East Bay reported a 1.3 percent increase in payroll job growth during the one-year period.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2012/08/02/4684333/uc-davis-chief-overruled-panel.html\">UC Davis chief overruled panel to fire pepper-spray officer\u003c/a> (Sacramento Bee)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The internal affairs investigation into last November’s pepper-spraying controversy at UC Davis concluded that Lt. John Pike acted reasonably, with a subsequent review concluding he should have faced demotion or a suspension at worst, according to documents obtained by The Bee. 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In the 1990s, technically there was no legal separation between banking and research. You had a lot of emails surface during litigation following the market crash in 2000 and 2001 that showed the bankers telling the analysts we could land this IPO, so we're promising them if we get the IPO, our analysts will issue a buy recommendation for the stock, will talk it up during the road show to investors, and will set a very high price target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The difference today is instead of those emails going back and forth, they do it verbally. That's the only difference. As someone who has been on Wall Street and is no longer on Wall Street but have many connections there, we know how the business works, and the pressure now is done verbally as opposed to email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, instead of research analysts' pay being tied to a bonus structure taking into account things like the number of IPOs the firm brings in, they're rewarded with restricted stock based on the company's overall performance or the team's performance, as well as intangibles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is those intangibles include are you being a team player, are you beating up our IPOs as soon as the 40-day quiet period expires? Any analyst that does this repeatedly, from our experience, they shouldn't expect a job at that firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've seen the sausage get made. We talk to a lot of investment bankers and people on deal teams off the record, because we have to verify information. As part of those conversations we get other insights as to how the deal is being quote marketed. Which is Wall Street parlance. They literally call it marketing a deal as opposed to explaining or analysis. That's what it is: advertising. Instead of selling soap, you're selling the stock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So as part of the marketing process we have off the record chats about how the star Internet or tech analyst is going to talk to big institutional investors verbally and pump up the stocks' forecast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So for example, what Facebook's going to do in 2015 – that's a judgment call. The analyst has leeway whether they want to predict Facebook is going to do $10 billion in revenue in five years or $30 billion in revenue in five years. 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Mr. Murray, 38, lost his job in March after downgrading the stock of Halozyme Therapeutics, a small biotechnology company he had followed since September 2005. \u003ca href=\"http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9905E6D91130F93AA35757C0A9609C8B63&pagewanted=all\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>I read Ms. Morgenson Hamadeh's statements, and here's what she had to say:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I think you can see probably that the predisposition to be positive about companies, particularly those with investment banking clients, does continue to be an issue. I haven't done the arithmetic lately, but if you wrre to look out over the horizon and see how many sell ratings you saw out there, they would be few and far between. That alone is an indication that we're still in the accentuate-the-positive mode. 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Set the forecast for the first quarter as a public company as low as possible, so that the company is all but guaranteed to beat them. No newly public company can be seen missing its first quarter. (In Facebook's case, the underwriter analysts already had fairly lowball estimates for the current, second quarter, but they were directed by Facebook's CFO to lower them even further given how weak the 2nd quarter numbers were coming in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2.) Set the forecasts for future periods as high as possible. And Facebook's underwriter analysts kept financial forecasts for further out periods (2014-2016) as high as they were initially. This is par for the course to justify the IPO's valuation. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, we turned to Sam Hamadeh, CEO of IPO research firm PrivCo, who was a \u003ca href=\"http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-08-17/tech/30055188_1_facebook-shares-facebook-management-facebook-fatigue\">Facebook bear before it was fashionable\u003c/a>. Hamadeh seemed fairly prescient when he provided us with \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> two days before it went public. In fact, one of the top reasons Hamadeh gave for his bearish views on the company (he pegs the real value of Facebook at $25 per share) is that it doesn't have a good way to monetize mobile users. And that, in fact, was the very reason Facebook cited when it told its underwriters to reduce their estimates, according to sources in this \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/23/us-facebook-analysts-idUSBRE84M08W20120523\">Reuters report\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamadeh called the new analyst ratings released this week \"fairly tepid,\" but said they were still too high. In our conversation, he also said that when it comes to analyst ratings, things haven't changed much on Wall Street since the dot-com scandals of the late 1990s and early 2000s, when a lack of separation between the research and business arms of the big firms incentivized analysts, ostensibly independent evaluators of securities, to vastly inflate their assessments of what stocks were worth. (Check out the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/wallstreet.html\">difference between public and private analyst opinions at Merrill Lynch during that era here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These conflicts of interests were supposedly addressed in 2003 by the so-called \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Settlement\">Global Settlement\u003c/a>, which mandated a separation between the banking and research departments at the big Wall Street firms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reading this, you should keep in mind that Hamadeh's independent research firm is a competitor of the big banks that he is criticizing here. This is an edited transcript:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: So what do you think of the ratings?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PRIVCO'S SAM HAMADEH\u003c/strong>: It's important for readers to understand that although underwriter research analysts are supposed to be independent, it's expected that virtually all of them of course issue positive recommendations for the company. It's fairly unusual for analyst reports from the underwriter firms involved in the IPO to issue any negative ratings. It would get a lot of publicity but would certainly cost the person their job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: But there was an analyst from one of the underwriting firms who seemed to be quite negative, putting the value of Facebook shares at $25 per share, like you...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SAM HAMADEH\u003c/strong>: That was a brave move. I think that analyst is doing so at his peril.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: You mean by virtue of this person issuing a low rating his job is in danger?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SAM HAMADEH\u003c/strong>: I worked at Goldman Sachs on the investment banking side in the 1990s, before the legal settlement making the research arms that issue ratings more separate from the banking side. But as a practical matter, these guys work in the same building, eat in the same cafeteria -- the analyst is chatting with investors during the road show… It certainly is a job-risking statement to come out with a price target below the IPO price or any sort of underperform rating like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: So that was a big issue in the 1990s, with the underwriters putting pressure on their analysts to come up with pumped up ratings. Correct?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SAM HAMADEH\u003c/strong> Absolutely. In the 1990s, technically there was no legal separation between banking and research. You had a lot of emails surface during litigation following the market crash in 2000 and 2001 that showed the bankers telling the analysts we could land this IPO, so we're promising them if we get the IPO, our analysts will issue a buy recommendation for the stock, will talk it up during the road show to investors, and will set a very high price target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The difference today is instead of those emails going back and forth, they do it verbally. That's the only difference. As someone who has been on Wall Street and is no longer on Wall Street but have many connections there, we know how the business works, and the pressure now is done verbally as opposed to email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, instead of research analysts' pay being tied to a bonus structure taking into account things like the number of IPOs the firm brings in, they're rewarded with restricted stock based on the company's overall performance or the team's performance, as well as intangibles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is those intangibles include are you being a team player, are you beating up our IPOs as soon as the 40-day quiet period expires? Any analyst that does this repeatedly, from our experience, they shouldn't expect a job at that firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've seen the sausage get made. We talk to a lot of investment bankers and people on deal teams off the record, because we have to verify information. As part of those conversations we get other insights as to how the deal is being quote marketed. Which is Wall Street parlance. They literally call it marketing a deal as opposed to explaining or analysis. That's what it is: advertising. Instead of selling soap, you're selling the stock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So as part of the marketing process we have off the record chats about how the star Internet or tech analyst is going to talk to big institutional investors verbally and pump up the stocks' forecast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So for example, what Facebook's going to do in 2015 – that's a judgment call. The analyst has leeway whether they want to predict Facebook is going to do $10 billion in revenue in five years or $30 billion in revenue in five years. With the bank that's the lead underwriter in the deal, you can fully expect the pressure is both explicit and implicit, that the expectation is the analyst is going to be on the high end of those projections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I was in investment banking in the 1990s, it was very clear we were all part of the same team, we attended pitch meetings together. The goals were to A get the deal, and B have the deal succeed and priced as high as possible; the research analyst's job was to support that effort.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>For another opinion, I turned to New York Times financial editor and columnist \u003ca href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/gretchen_morgenson/index.html\">Gretchen Morgenson\u003c/a>, who herself broke a \u003ca href=\"http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/gretchen_morgenson/index.html\">story\u003c/a> in 2006 involving the very situation that Hamadeh describes. Here's the lead to that \u003ca href=\"http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9905E6D91130F93AA35757C0A9609C8B63&pagewanted=all\">report\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>ALMOST four years have passed since securities regulators and Wall Street firms signed the $1.4 billion research settlement intended to remove bias from brokerage firm analysts' work. Has enough time gone by for business as usual to return to the Street?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That seems to be what some on Wall Street hope, judging from the story of Matthew N. Murray, a veteran analyst and portfolio manager who was recently fired from his post at Rodman & Renshaw, a small brokerage firm in New York City. Mr. Murray, 38, lost his job in March after downgrading the stock of Halozyme Therapeutics, a small biotechnology company he had followed since September 2005. \u003ca href=\"http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9905E6D91130F93AA35757C0A9609C8B63&pagewanted=all\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>I read Ms. Morgenson Hamadeh's statements, and here's what she had to say:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I think you can see probably that the predisposition to be positive about companies, particularly those with investment banking clients, does continue to be an issue. I haven't done the arithmetic lately, but if you wrre to look out over the horizon and see how many sell ratings you saw out there, they would be few and far between. That alone is an indication that we're still in the accentuate-the-positive mode. As long as that goes on, investors should be wary of putting too much credence in these analysts' ratings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think the analyst that you quote – his points are well taken.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>One thing, though: Financial regulators are now looking into Facebook's alleged selected guidance to analysts that they \u003cem>lower\u003c/em> their forecasts, which they did. Doesn't that contradict Hamadeh's claim that analysts for underwriters always \u003cem>inflate\u003c/em> their estimates? I asked him in a follow-up, and here's what he said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Yes, Facebook's underwriters did the rare reduction in forecasts in the middle of its IPO roadshow, which is virtually unheard of. And that is now the subject of much securities litigation and SEC and FINRA regulatory scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from the fairly unprecedented case of Facebook, IPO underwriter analysts virtually always do two things:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1.) Set the forecast for the first quarter as a public company as low as possible, so that the company is all but guaranteed to beat them. No newly public company can be seen missing its first quarter. (In Facebook's case, the underwriter analysts already had fairly lowball estimates for the current, second quarter, but they were directed by Facebook's CFO to lower them even further given how weak the 2nd quarter numbers were coming in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2.) Set the forecasts for future periods as high as possible. And Facebook's underwriter analysts kept financial forecasts for further out periods (2014-2016) as high as they were initially. This is par for the course to justify the IPO's valuation. Typically the firms quietly reduce them long after the IPO.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\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. 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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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. 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