As I look at Wall Street headlines I better understand why so many owners and stakeholders of privately held companies aren't jumping into the IPO line and some publicly traded firms are jumping out.

You have seen it a hundred times before. The latest "it" company is standing on a balcony, overlooking a sea of applauding stockbrokers, reporters and other NYSE staff. Their company has gone public and the only way to go from here is up, right? Wrong.

With Singapore, Shanghai and even Shenzhen all making great strides to establish themselves as IPO centers in their own right, Hong Kong's future position at the top table is far from secure.

By Basil Katz July 17 (Reuters) - Nasdaq OMX Group Inc and investors who sued the exchange operator over Facebook Inc's $16 billion...

For a long time, one of the reasons for doing an IPO was that everybody else was doing it. It was a status symbol. But I don't think the entrepreneurs of today care as much about that. Good for them.

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Whether or not there was any wrongdoing, the reasons for the Facebook flop are understandable. In many ways, this is an echo of the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, when emotion triumphed over logic for long enough to drive Internet stocks to prices that could only fall.

Facebook's botched IPO is only the latest in a string of high-profile technology IPOs that have not gone as hoped, leading some to raise the question:...

As shareholders continue to pick through the rubble of the troubled Facebook IPO, questions still linger about the role -- if any -- high-frequency tr...

NEW YORK — Morgan Stanley, the lead investment bank in Facebook's troubled initial public offering, will compensate retail investors who overpai...