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Can You Buy a Piece of Facebook?

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    FBN’s Gerri Willis on how individual investors can get in on the Facebook IPO game.

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Access to keep that and that -- -- here but it's did not -- PO roadshow in the big question of course.

Now imagine million members are any of them any means so called friends gonna be able to get -- the action here in the -- the little guy basically.

Gerri Willis -- here in in support of the little guy -- yeah.

Do you ever seen so much hyping your -- -- -- and.

That's from are so here's the good news if you have got got over FaceBook but I think everything that position but if you are.

E*Trade.

It's become one of those 33 firms underwriting.

The IPO so -- in if they're gonna be offering shares to the public actually two E*Trade members.

And -- prices this year it'll go at a twenty to 35 is the range right now E*Trade has some two point eight million brokerage accounts my guess there's not enough for everybody have -- I think is interesting because not only what happens with any -- IPO.

Is most of the shares go to institutional investors the big investor right people -- the big -- the mutual funds -- private guy's been a big guys.

And they keep one.

-- bit on the side.

For individual investors to -- they say 15% -- I have to tell you -- -- -- believe that number yet from recent so it's very tough for people to get in this they end up getting.

In the after market when the prices already gone up and is on its way down so I am not a fan.

-- trying to get in the IPO market and less you know you're a member your partner gold.

But if that is very noble right we want to open it up to retail and let the little guy and I had it's good I'm I'm happy -- -- -- as -- as a warning here I wanna show you out full screen right now the largest IPOs ever in these are Internet IPOs.

Biggest ones ever -- list starts with Google.

-- annuity Zynga -- bondage how many of those do you think.

Are trading above their offer price.

One wine wine golf.

-- that tells you big story the half life of these companies not very long Google's the only player in that group who is actually doing better today.

It's a warning from the -- -- that's OK yeah and read about the debt long jeopardy of FaceBook you know once grand mom gets on FaceBook it's not cool you anymore and so on -- -- -- double knock you out right but dot.

Spending -- but I want to forget my kids would never go to -- my -- I'm gonna do you think I'm noticeably -- I.

In Lebanon -- you it's hard to do because you have the FaceBook for the show and then you have.

I had a Jerry page but then it was written about so I don't do that but -- think really does it yeah you don't look the problem is that.

The revenue growth in this company is.

What's what's you know what's your reason that -- and I believe anything that once the kids leave about a -- -- wait what's on tonight.

We're going to be talking about this we're going to be talking about Europe we're very interest in the socialist -- that may be coming to our shores.

He's -- and uninteresting so what elements for actually on I have I'll I'll I am available dissonant.

I'm very last -- -- he ended -- and that.

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