IPO Seen Deepening Investor Distrust of Stocks

via Bloomberg:

 

Facebook Inc. (FB)’s initial public offering, plagued by trading errors and a 16 percent drop in the share price, will push more individual investors out of a stock market they already distrust after the financial crisis.

“This is clearly the latest in a long string of events that is eviscerating the confidence investors have in the market,” said Andrew Stoltmann, a Chicago attorney who represents retail investors. “The perception is Wall Street jiggered [...]

John Shinal: Are you sorry you missed out on the Yelp Inc. IPO last week? Don’t be.

By John Shinal

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Are you sorry you missed out on the Yelp Inc. IPO last week? Don’t be.

While headlines touting the stock’s first-day rise of more than 60% might have prompted some profit envy, a look behind that number shows Yelp’s YELP +0.26%  offering was little more than a sucker’s bet for retail investors.

In other words, it was about the same as every other recent tech IPO.