ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
Yelp.com (YELP) is barely a month old as a publicly traded company, but it is already printing a fascinating stock chart. YELP’s IPO was priced at $15, but it opened for trading on March 2nd, 2012 at $22. That day, the stock went as high as $26 before settling at $24.58. After dropping 15% the … Read more
Zynga (ZNGA) has established itself as a resilient IPO so far. After an IPO on December 16, 2011 at $10/share, an open at $11, and a high of $11.50, ZNGA quickly sold off as low as $7.97 on January 9, 2012. From there, the stock rallied in almost a straight line, receiving a turbo boost … Read more