By Olivia Oran and Alistair Barr NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc priced its initial public offering at $38 a share, giving the world’s No. 1 online social network a $104 billion valuation in the third largest offering in U.S. history. The offering puts the eight-year-old company, founded in a Harvard dorm room, a valuation...

Wed, May 16, 2012, 5:47pm EDT – US Markets are closed   By Jessica Toonkel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors who want Facebook Inc shares when the No. 1 online social network goes public later this week may have lost the opportunity. TD Ameritrade and Fidelity’s brokerage arm both stopped accepting orders of Facebook shares...

US stocks waver as fears about Greek political impasse duke it out with stronger economic data By Daniel Wagner, AP Business Writer | Associated Press – 2 hours 22 minutes ago 2 Email Print Companies: Lennar Corp. Avon Products Inc. The TJX Companies, Inc. RELATED QUOTES Symbol Price Change LEN 29.16 +0.79 AVP 18.71 -2.02 TJX 42.45 +2.75 LEN-B 23.41 +0.51 BAC 7.30 -0.05   Stronger...

By Shobhana Chandra | Bloomberg – 1 hour 59 minutes ago   Job openings in the U.S. rose in March to the highest level in more than three years, a sign employers may be looking to take on more staff as the economy grows. The number of positions waiting to be filled increased by 172,000 to 3.74 million, the most since July 2008, from a revised...

By Joshua Zumbrun | Bloomberg – 1 hour 51 minutes ago 2 Email Print Companies: Choice Hotels International Inc. Visa, Inc. RELATED QUOTES Symbol Price Change CHH 37.50 +0.11 V 118.52 +0.73 The smallest gain in U.S. payrolls in six months need not presage the kind of slowdown that bedeviled...

By Daniel Gross | Contrary Indicator – Fri, May 4, 2012 9:55 AM EDT 21 Email Print The April jobs report, released Friday morning, found that the U.S. economy created a disappointing 115,000 jobs for the month. On several levels, the jobs report offered more of the same. Disappointingly weak job trend. The poor job market has been...

Reuters – 5 hours ago By Gernot Heller and Glenn Somerville WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Global finance chiefs pressed Europe in weekend talks to quickly put in place the economic reforms needed to finally extinguish its debt crisis now that newly increased financial buffers have bought some precious time. A day after advanced and emerging...

Reuters – 52 minutes ago (Reuters) – Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc emerged from its record $639 billion bankruptcy on Tuesday and said it will start paying back creditors on April 17. The move puts an end to the bankruptcy proceeding that began on September 15, 2008, when Lehman collapsed and rocked the foundations of the global financial...

Published: Feb 29, 2012 By Barbara Powell – Feb 29, 2012 The U.S. exported more gasoline, diesel and other fuels than it imported in 2011 for the first time since 1949, the Energy Department said today. Shipments abroad of petroleum products exceeded imports by 439,000 barrels a day, the department said in the Petroleum Supply Monthly report....

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