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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Ed Butowsky: Whats Happening To These IPOs?

As I have said before, you have to look under the hood of an IPO before investing. What is the motivation for any company to go public?
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Molycorp Plunges 14% on First Day After Chopping Rare-Earth IPO


July 29 (Bloomberg) -- Molycorp Inc., owner of the world's largest non-Chinese deposit of rare-earth metals, declined in its first day of trading after chopping the size of its initial public offering by 18 percent.

"You have an environment where a lot of companies are going public that shouldn't be because they aren't ripe yet," said Ed Butowsky, managing director at Chapwood Capital Investment Management LLC in Addison, Texas. "It highlights how unstable some of these companies going public are."

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Ed Butowsky: Yahoo Investing In Hackers?

Could this be, a good idea from a hacker? What is Yahoo thinking. Isn't enough we have to worry about the government being wide open to leaks that now Yahoo is opening up to hackers. Check out the videos on my site, I have a ton of them that are relating to industries in trouble. I do not think we need another one. More videos at http://www.edbutowsky.com/

Yahoo will invest in hackers with good ideas


John Ribeiro( IDG News Service - 7/26/2010 12:00:00 AM )
Yahoo is considering investing in hackers with good ideas and technologies, a company executive said on Saturday. "We are open to many ways of having a stake in creative young companies," said Jeff Kinder, Yahoo’s senior vice president for media products and solutions, on the sidelines of a Yahoo Open Hack Day in Bangalore. The Internet company does not have a fund earmarked for this purpose, or a definite model or set of criteria for such investments, Kinder added.

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