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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 07:51:38 -0400</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Patrick Clark</dc:creator>
				
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/facebookimages.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-240504" title="FACEBOOKimages" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/facebookimages.jpg" alt="" width="204" height="204" /></a>The Facebook IPO keeps growing, a new source of irony in JPMorgan's losses and an old player heads goes in for a fresh helping of mortgage bonds. That and more in today's Wall Street roundup.</p>
<p><strong>Who needs revenue? </strong>The world's largest social network may yet challenge the record for the world's largest IPO, as Zuck &amp; Co. increased the price range for Facebook shares, then increased the shares offered by 25 percent, <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-16/facebook-said-to-raise-size-of-ipo-to-421-million-shares.html">valuing the offering</a> at as much as $16 billion. Those numbers place Facebook in the neighborhood of GM—$15.8 billion, expanded to $18.1 when underwriters exercised an option to sell more shares given high demand—and Visa, which raised $17.9 billion, later raised to $19.7 billion.</p>
<p>It hardly seems to matter that some <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304192704577406394017764460.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories">ads aren't translating</a> into product sales.</p>
<p><strong>Goes around, comes around (JPM): </strong>Hedge funds weren't the only ones to jump at the chance to snap up credit default swaps on the cheap from JPMorgan's chief investment office: Turns out JPMorgan's own Strategic Investment Opportunities Fund, which runs $13 billion in client money, accumulated $380 million in credit insurance identical to the type the London Whale was selling. Which <a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/as-one-jpmorgan-trader-sold-risky-contracts-another-one-bought-them/">one wag suggests</a> means the metaphorical walls meant to keep information segregated between different parts of the bank appear to have been working.</p>
<p><strong>Goes around, comes around (AIG): </strong>Remember when the Federal Reserve bailed out AIG to the tune of $182 billion, assuming devalued securities from the insurer in the process? Now AIG is buying some of those assets back, including <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-16/aig-wagers-on-subprime-betting-second-time-different-mortgages.html">$600 million</a> in commercial mortgage-backed securities, or CMBS.</p>
<p><strong>Rush for the Grexit: </strong>This is sort of scary: Greek savers withdrew at least 700 million euros—$894 million—on Monday, as speculation rises the country may exit the eurozone. Reuters reports that <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/16/us-greece-idUSBRE84D07X20120516">withdrawals continued</a> at the same rate on Tuesday, adding that for the moment, there aren't lines outside the banks. But when you have to mention it as a possibility...</p>
<p><strong>Understocked? </strong>E-mails included in judicial filings by Overstock.com appear to show that Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch traders <a href="Overstock shares caused large- scale naked short selling of the company’s stock, according to the filing. ">intentionally failed</a> to find and deliver borrowed shares for short-selling clients. Overstock lawyers said that the banks' behavior caused widespread short-selling of Overstock's stock.</p>
<p><strong>Battle of the Sexes:</strong> In the wake of Ina Drew's exit from JPMorgan, <em>Time</em> dusts off this old question: Do women make <a href="http://business.time.com/2012/05/15/why-we-need-more-female-traders-on-wall-street/">better traders</a> than men?</p>
<p><strong>Swiss miss:</strong> Credit Suisse told New York State regulators that it would eliminate <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-15/credit-suisse-plans-to-dismiss-126-workers-at-new-york-site-1-.html">126 bankers</a> in its Manhattan offices.</p>
<p><strong>Pepsi Next? </strong>Activist investor Ralph Whitworth's Relational Investors took a <a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/whitworths-relational-takes-stake-in-pepsi/">$609 million stake</a> in Pepsi last quarter, according to filings.</p>
<p><strong>Preaching to the choir:</strong> President Barack Obama told rich private equity guys he believes in <a href="http://politicker.com/2012/05/15/president-obama-i-think-all-of-us-benefit-from-the-freedom-of-free-enterprise/">free enterprise.</a></p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/facebookimages.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-240504" title="FACEBOOKimages" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/facebookimages.jpg" alt="" width="204" height="204" /></a>The Facebook IPO keeps growing, a new source of irony in JPMorgan's losses and an old player heads goes in for a fresh helping of mortgage bonds. That and more in today's Wall Street roundup.</p>
<p><strong>Who needs revenue? </strong>The world's largest social network may yet challenge the record for the world's largest IPO, as Zuck &amp; Co. increased the price range for Facebook shares, then increased the shares offered by 25 percent, <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-16/facebook-said-to-raise-size-of-ipo-to-421-million-shares.html">valuing the offering</a> at as much as $16 billion. Those numbers place Facebook in the neighborhood of GM—$15.8 billion, expanded to $18.1 when underwriters exercised an option to sell more shares given high demand—and Visa, which raised $17.9 billion, later raised to $19.7 billion.</p>
<p>It hardly seems to matter that some <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304192704577406394017764460.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories">ads aren't translating</a> into product sales.</p>
<p><strong>Goes around, comes around (JPM): </strong>Hedge funds weren't the only ones to jump at the chance to snap up credit default swaps on the cheap from JPMorgan's chief investment office: Turns out JPMorgan's own Strategic Investment Opportunities Fund, which runs $13 billion in client money, accumulated $380 million in credit insurance identical to the type the London Whale was selling. Which <a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/as-one-jpmorgan-trader-sold-risky-contracts-another-one-bought-them/">one wag suggests</a> means the metaphorical walls meant to keep information segregated between different parts of the bank appear to have been working.</p>
<p><strong>Goes around, comes around (AIG): </strong>Remember when the Federal Reserve bailed out AIG to the tune of $182 billion, assuming devalued securities from the insurer in the process? Now AIG is buying some of those assets back, including <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-16/aig-wagers-on-subprime-betting-second-time-different-mortgages.html">$600 million</a> in commercial mortgage-backed securities, or CMBS.</p>
<p><strong>Rush for the Grexit: </strong>This is sort of scary: Greek savers withdrew at least 700 million euros—$894 million—on Monday, as speculation rises the country may exit the eurozone. Reuters reports that <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/16/us-greece-idUSBRE84D07X20120516">withdrawals continued</a> at the same rate on Tuesday, adding that for the moment, there aren't lines outside the banks. But when you have to mention it as a possibility...</p>
<p><strong>Understocked? </strong>E-mails included in judicial filings by Overstock.com appear to show that Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch traders <a href="Overstock shares caused large- scale naked short selling of the company’s stock, according to the filing. ">intentionally failed</a> to find and deliver borrowed shares for short-selling clients. Overstock lawyers said that the banks' behavior caused widespread short-selling of Overstock's stock.</p>
<p><strong>Battle of the Sexes:</strong> In the wake of Ina Drew's exit from JPMorgan, <em>Time</em> dusts off this old question: Do women make <a href="http://business.time.com/2012/05/15/why-we-need-more-female-traders-on-wall-street/">better traders</a> than men?</p>
<p><strong>Swiss miss:</strong> Credit Suisse told New York State regulators that it would eliminate <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-15/credit-suisse-plans-to-dismiss-126-workers-at-new-york-site-1-.html">126 bankers</a> in its Manhattan offices.</p>
<p><strong>Pepsi Next? </strong>Activist investor Ralph Whitworth's Relational Investors took a <a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/whitworths-relational-takes-stake-in-pepsi/">$609 million stake</a> in Pepsi last quarter, according to filings.</p>
<p><strong>Preaching to the choir:</strong> President Barack Obama told rich private equity guys he believes in <a href="http://politicker.com/2012/05/15/president-obama-i-think-all-of-us-benefit-from-the-freedom-of-free-enterprise/">free enterprise.</a></p>
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