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Why the run?
Why buy ihub when they can run their ads on here for free? That's what their mobile ad network will allow them to do. They're in final tests with the as network and should be rolling it out this quarter, IMO.
Waiting for earnings
Nope
$10 says FB acquires them :)
Oh and WhatsApp is no longer paid, it's free.
Facebook has 5 billion users if you use their methodology. Difference is ACTIVE users. Facebook has 1.2 Billion Active users. WhatsApp? No one knows because they don't release that info.
Ad blocker only 10% market share and doesn't work on iOS (which advertisers target way more than android users).
WhatsApp has a fraction the engagement Facebook has: http://allthingsd.com/20130628/as-competition-heightens-in-social-stateside-users-still-stuck-to-facebook/
Huge news coming tomorrow IMO.
Will the pps go up still when they convert? I was under the impression that these .04s are the new pps.
I got 65k new shares on Sharebuilder this morning.
FB steamroller still rollin'!
Should I wait for the D to drop before trying to buy shares? Does it matter?
Awesome. I can dig those numbers!
Why Tuesday?
You got the actual EPS numbers wrong.
Check it out: http://i.imgur.com/TbX4j2C.jpg
Q1 - .12 (actual)
Q2 - .19 (actual)
Q3 - .18 (your estimate)
Q4 - .24 (your estimate)
= .73 year end
Well of you add q1, 2, plus your q3 that would make q4 eps super low. Q4 is always the highest quarter for advertising companies.
No offense, but I can't understand anything you just typed.
I'm in on opening bell! Love the transparency, exec backgrounds, ability to get capital, and new explosive market!
GO STKOD!!!!!! $$$$$$
That would be .74 for the year then.
Best part if that story is the CEO of Gambit was fired from Facebook in 2008.
Back to HOD - LIKE A BOSS.
Green cover and go long. For your families sake ;P
Full article:
By AL YOON
Fannie Mae is planning a bond deal that will pay buyers to share a tiny sliver of the risk of the U.S. home-lending business.
The Washington-based company plans to sell about $675 million of securities in an offering that is expected to be announced next month. The securities are derivatives whose value will depend on the performance of a pool of $28.05 billion of mortgages acquired by Fannie Mae in the third quarter of 2012, according to a term sheet reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
The deal follows a similar issue in July from Fannie's smaller brother, Freddie Mac. Both companies are issuing the securities to help meet a mandate from their regulator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, to reduce the cost of defaults to U.S. taxpayers, who bailed out the companies with $188 billion during the financial crisis.
The plan represents the latest effort to lure Wall Street back into a business that generated billions of dollars in fees and profits during the housing boom but has since gone nearly silent.
Fannie and Freddie don't make mortgage loans, but buy loans made by other lenders and package them into securities that they sell to investors, with a guarantee that buyers will continue to receive regular principal and interest payments even if underlying mortgages default.
This guarantee is a key selling point for mortgage investors, particularly after so-called private-label securities suffered outsize losses during the financial crisis. Both companies have been raising the fees they charge for the guarantee since the crisis, to better protect themselves against default risk and to reflect higher prices charged by other mortgage companies.
The push by the FHFA coincides with pressure from Congress and the Obama administration to wind down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Echoing the idea of risk-sharing securities, one bill sponsored by Sens. Bob Corker (R., Tenn.), and Mark Warner (D., Va.), would require that private investors take the first losses on mortgages while leaving some government backing in place.
The planned sale comes as private investors have begun to tiptoe back into nongovernment-backed mortgage debt following the crisis. Investors have been more willing to accept riskier debt in the past year as the housing market has rebounded. Furthermore, underwriting terms are tight compared with those during the housing boom, reducing the risk of default.
"You'd expect it to generate significant demand because it's being offered at a good point in the mortgage credit cycle," said Christopher Sullivan, chief investment officer at the United Nations Federal Credit Union. He didn't buy the Freddie Mac deal but will consider buying the Fannie Mae issue.
But some investors have been uncomfortable with judging risks of loans purchased by Fannie Mae because they didn't have detailed loan data until recently. Fannie Mae this month sought to ease those concerns, pledging in a presentation that its future deals, known as Connecticut Avenue Securities series, will include its "strongest performing book of business."
Private issuance of mortgage securities this year has hit $12 billion, its highest level since the crisis. More than $1 trillion annually was sold at the peak of the real-estate boom in 2005 and 2006. Since the crisis, Fannie, Freddie and government agencies have financed roughly nine in 10 U.S. home loans.
Buyers of Freddie Mac's first issue included PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust, a mortgage-finance firm run by former Countrywide Financial President Stanford Kurland.
Fannie Mae has sought a credit rating on part of the deal in what is likely an attempt to broaden the field of investors. The senior of the two offered tranches is expected to draw the lowest investment-grade rating—BBB-minus—from Fitch Ratings, according to the term sheet.
Freddie Mac's deal wasn't rated, but executives in July said investors suggested that if they were to expand their participation in future deals, debt ratings would be important. After raising some yields, Freddie priced the two tranches at 3.4 percentage points and 7.15 percentage points above the one-month London interbank offered rate.
The Freddie Mac issue gained immediately after pricing and trades around 2.9 percentage points and 6.5 percentage points, respectively, above Libor, according to an investor who bought the bonds.
She's running!
EU issues report on why it approved the US Airways-American Airlines merger
The European Union approved the US Airways-American Airlines merger on Aug. 5, but finally issued its full report Wednesday on its review and conclusions on the merger.
As was reported at the time, the EU accepted the US-AA offer to surrender a takeoff slot and landing slot at London Heathrow Airport to allow a competitor to start service on the London-Philadelphia route.
Right now, the route has a daily flight by US Airways and two by American’s Oneworld partner British Airways. Out of 27 trans-Atlantic routes, the London-Philadelphia route was the only one that raised alarm bells for EU regulators.
The EU didn’t buy the AA-US reasoning that London flights out of Newark, N.J., provided sufficient competition for the Philadelphia route, according to the EU report. But an additional competitor on the London-Philadelphia was sufficient to allay the EU concerns.
We don’t know what airline might get the slots and operate the route (assuming the merger survives an antitrust lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice.”
The EU report said that under the final commitments from American and US Airways, the European Commission “would collect bids for the Slots and assess whether the applicant is a viable competitor with the ability, resources and commitment to operate services on the Airport Pair [London-Philadelphia] in the long term as a viable and active competitive force.”
Here’s the full report for those who would like to spend a lovely evening reading its 71 pages.
http://aviationblog.dallasnews.com/2013/09/eu-issues-report-on-why-it-approved-the-us-airways-american-airlines-merger.html/
Did you finally go long ?
So you're a tire patent expert, eh?
Cool story
Facebook Mobile Ad Network would be huge!
It's not fading. What data point do you have that supports that? Every third party data company (Compete, Alexa, Quantcast) supports Facebook's public user data that shows they are still growing in every country.
Yeah the thing with Facebook is that they have the industry top social scientists engineering the product to make it heavily addicting (see cigarettes).
If Google can't beat them no one can.
I'm watching like a hawk and got my stop loss in. :)
Id love to see those case studies
Finally averaging positive here. Whew. Not to stay and hope for the merger or walk a way gauranteed green? Decisions decisions.
Just waiting for someone to hit the lights and say the party is over... Could be today, could be next year. Either way, I'm still drinking the koolaid!
Uh... Sprint was just acquired by Softbank. Please don't post stupid crap.
After ;)
Modeled out my options so I'm set with a stop-loss incase they miss :)