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(Reuters) - Dead silence. For nearly 20 minutes on the morning of Facebook Inc's trading debut last Friday, the line Nasdaq had opened up to keep traders informed about the social media company's $16 billion IPO had been mute. Well after the stock was supposed to have opened at 11 a.m. New York time, no one from Nasdaq …

May 25 (Reuters) - Four of Wall Street's major market makers involved inFacebook's botched initial public offering last Friday expect theirlosses from technical glitches on Nasdaq's exchange to be around $115 million.

(Reuters) - The board of JPMorgan Chase & Co is expected to make changes to its risk-policy committee after the bank's trading losses of more than $2 billion (1.27 billion pounds), The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing anonymous sources. The board is expected to add either Timothy Flynn or James Bell to the …

(Reuters) - The board of JPMorgan Chase & Co is expected to make changes to its risk-policy committee after the bank's trading losses of more than $2 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing anonymous sources. The board is expected to add either Timothy Flynn or James Bell to the committee, the Journal …

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nasdaq OMX said on Friday its board of directors elected Börje Ekholm to serve as the interim chairman of the exchange operator, replacing Furlong Baldwin, who retired. Ekholm, chief executive of Nordic-based industrial holding company Investor AB, Nasdaq's No. 2 shareholder, steps into the position …

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nasdaq OMX said on Friday its board of directors elected Börje Ekholm to serve as the interim chairman of the exchange operator, replacing Furlong Baldwin, who retired. Ekholm, chief executive of Nordic-based industrial holding company Investor AB, Nasdaq's No. 2 shareholder, steps into the position …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Securities regulators are looking into whether Nasdaq violated any technical exchange rules when it botched Facebook Inc's market debut last week, according to people familiar with the matter. The review of potential technical violations is part of the Securities and Exchange Commission's broader …

Another flare-up in Europe's debt crisis knocked U.S. markets lower Friday. This time, it was more trouble at a major Spanish bank.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Four of Wall Street's major market makers involved in Facebook's botched initial public offering last Friday expect their losses from technical glitches on Nasdaq's exchange to be around $115 million. A software error on Nasdaq OMX Group Inc's U.S. exchange delayed the social networking company's market …

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks ended their first positive week in four with a down day on Friday as investors were reluctant to buy going into a long weekend, with uncertainty still swirling around Europe. An S&P index of industrial shares ranked among the session's biggest losers while weakness in large-cap tech stocks …

CHICAGO (Reuters) - CBOE Holdings won court backing Friday in its long-running legal battle to prevent rival International Securities Exchange from listing options on the Standard & Poor 500 Index, one of CBOE's most popular and profitable products. The Illinois Appellate Court on Friday affirmed an injunction forbidding …

(Reuters) - Claims by four of Wall Street's main market makers against Nasdaq over Facebook's botched IPO are likely to exceed $100 million, as they and other traders continue to deal with thousands of problems with customer orders.

(Reuters) - Claims by four of Wall Street's main market makers against Nasdaq over Facebook's botched IPO are likely to exceed $100 million, as they and other traders continue to deal with thousands of problems with customer orders. A technical glitch delayed the social networking company's market debut by 30 minutes on …

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Just when brokers thought Mom-and-Pop investors were getting excited about the stock market, along came Facebook. The 17 percent plunge in Facebook's shares since its ballyhooed debut last Friday, coupled with Nasdaq's mishandling of opening day trading, is spooking the very investors who had seemed …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase Chief Executive Jamie Dimon has been invited to testify before the Senate Banking Committee on June 7 to give lawmakers insight into the bank's trading loss of at least $2 billion (1.27 billion pounds), Senator Tim Johnson said on Friday. Johnson, the Democratic chairman of that Senate …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase Chief Executive Jamie Dimon has been invited to testify before the Senate Banking Committee on June 7 to give lawmakers insight into the bank's trading loss of at least $2 billion, Senator Tim Johnson said on Friday. Johnson, the Democratic chairman of that Senate panel, said the botched …

CHICAGO (Reuters) - CBOE Holdings won court backing Friday in its long-running legal battle to prevent rival International Securities Exchange from listing options on the Standard & Poor 500 Index, one of CBOE's most popular and profitable products. The Illinois Appellate Court on Friday issued a ruling forbidding ISE from …

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ratings agency Standard & Poor's cut the ratings on five Spanish banks on Friday, another blow to the country's ailing banking sector as the nation's deteriorating finances rattle global investors. But S&P left unchanged its ratings on the country's two biggest banks, Santander and Banco Bilbao Vizcaya …

MONACO (Reuters) - Businessman Peter Brabeck, celebrating his appointment as Formula One chairman on Friday, said the motor racing series had not made a decision on whether to proceed with a much discussed $10 billion listing on the stock market in Singapore. Speaking to Reuters over a trackside lunch with Formula One commercial …

MONACO (Reuters) - Businessman Peter Brabeck, celebrating his appointment as Formula One chairman on Friday, said the motor racing series had not made a decision on whether to proceed with a much discussed $10 billion listing on the stock market in Singapore.

COMMENTARY | "Buy Facebook," brokers cried. Wall Street experts and talking heads touted the mega million dollar to be the hottest IPO since Google. And people everywhere bought into it by the thousands, save yours truly. I was one of the few who didn't buy into the hype. I had a feeling that Facebook stocks weren't going …

MONACO (Reuters) - Businessman Peter Brabeck, celebrating his appointment as Formula One chairman on Friday, said the motor racing series had not made a decision on whether to proceed with a much discussed $10 billion listing on the stock market in Singapore.

The stock market struggled for direction Friday morning.