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When big financial events happen, where do you go first for insights and commentary?
Financial news sites, churning out article after article by 20-something writers with little financial experience or expertise, being paid by the word?
Free websites more intent on entertaining than enlightening and giving you the Perez Hilton treatment of a deadly serious topic?
Dubious "expert traders" touting their "amazing" track records who are likely talking up their own book?
Allow me to suggest an alternative.
I'd like to invite you to make Real Money your starting point for understanding not just the big events, but the seemingly small developments that can affect your entire investment portfolio and strategy.
For news, analysis, and most importantly, money-making advice, you simply won't find a better "home base" than Real Money.
When the next dramatic merger is announced...the next bellwether earnings miss is revealed...the next game-changing technology is unveiled...or when the next black swan arrives... Real Money will be there to help you not only understand, but profit from it.
Real Money In Action
To show you what I mean, let me take you back to the biggest financial story of the year.
An event so big that investors circled it on their calendars, gurus announced it would kick-start a wave of hot new IPOs and Wall Street spreadsheets kicked into overdrive.
| |  | Heck, the state of California even speculated that they might make $2 billion from this event, and adjusted their budget accordingly!
I'm talking, of course, about the Facebook IPO.
With the benefit of hindsight, the Facebook IPO looks like not only a spectacular bust, but an embarrassment to NASDAQ and a true black eye for Morgan Stanley.
But in the weeks leading up to its launch as a public company on May 18th, speculation was running wild.
How high could Facebook go on day one? How many billions will Mark Zuckerberg be worth? Will a successful IPO be the sign that burned investors need to return to the market in force?
| | | The dedicated and experienced Wall Street pros at Real Money were all over the story from start to finish.
The Real Money Pre-Game Show
Before the IPO, Real Money warned about hype overtaking fundamentals:
Real Money expert Doug Kass outlined 5 major concerns he had with the company's public offering 2 days before the IPO, before reaching his conclusion:
Maybe Facebook will be the greatest thing since sliced bread, but I'll be content to I'll let the market determine its value and watch from the sidelines until I get a feel for the way it trades.
Jim Cramer injected a dose of reality on May 17:
We know that this deal is going to be fraught with everything that is wrong with the IPO process:
- Difficult allocations given to the biggest clients, while the biggest users of the product believe they should get stock and angry retail investors can't believe they aren't going to be able to.
- Valuations that go from reasonable on the out years to just crazy on them.
- Insider sellers getting out at big gains, while those who buy in the aftermarket will be mostly saddled with losses if history plays any role.
Cramer again on May 17, with a smart prediction:
The deal is way too hot. But it is indisputable that the company is a fast-growing well run enterprise that is worth a great deal, just not as much as people might pay with a market order to buy stock at the opening tomorrow or any other point during that day.
D-DAY!
The day of the IPO, Real Money pros helped members cope with the confusion of an IPO that at first didn't trade at all, and then disappointed all those who banked on a big pop.
| | | At 5 AM on 5/18, Scott Redler's video tutorial gave the expert's view on how to interpret the first 15 minutes of trading. For anyone thinking of day-trading the IPO, this was invaluable intelligence—a real insiders look at how the pros do it. And it was only available to Real Money members.
Sham Gad threw some cold water on the true believers halfway through the action:
Shares are up 9% or so. That may be the best gain to be had in Facebook for some time. Restless institutional investors will start cashing out—pocketing whatever gain they can so they don't look foolish (remember Groupon). And the Facebook hype will be over.
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| | | | | A few hours later, Scott Redler offered this perspective on IPO-day:
The most over-hyped, over-talked-about IPO in history is now a huge disappointment. We had our plan and followed it. Even using a surgical approach didn't work.
The Ugly Truth: Investors Got Screwed
And in the aftermath, Real Money called out culprits, named names and helped investors make sense of their disappointment. For those who didn't listen to the warnings, it was the kind of straight talk they just weren't hearing elsewhere:
On May 22nd, Jim Cramer nailed why this IPO was such a disaster for all investors—it caused investors to lose the little bit of trust they had that Wall Street would play fair.
More importantly, something that was meant to be seminal, that was meant to be a welcome-back sign for retail investors turns out to be a DANGER, MINEFIELD ahead with a fitting collection of skulls and crossbones representing the remains of all who ventured into the Facebook minefield.
On 5/24, Jim Cramer detailed the real and disturbing issues behind the "Facebook Fakeout"—the fact that Morgan Stanley was hiding material info and sticking unknowing investors with a company facing serious issues:
Now we know all of this was wrong. Now we know that Morgan Stanley was selectively telling accounts that the company would earn 83 cents a share, not 88 cents, in 2013 and 48 cents, not 51, cents in 2012...[as a result]...the high demand could only be from hapless people out of the loop of the number cuts...as long as the public only knew the greatness of the 900 million strong users, and this number cut did not get widely distributed, everything was hunkey dorey.
And on 5/25, Jim Cramer asked "10 Facebook Questions that Still Need Answering," concluding with this sad —and correct—prediction:
Now here is what will happen: nothing. No one will pay. Lawsuits will be filed and they will be fought. Morgan Stanley will have small make-goods. Nasdaq will say it is not their fault, so they don't have to pay. The government will attempt to look in to this, but will be befuddled.
And everyone involved -- Facebook execs, Morgan Stanley execs, Nasdaq execs -- will not only keep their jobs but, they will get raises next year.
Now we here at Real Money don't have a perfect batting average. No one does. But today, Facebook is still sitting some 44% below its opening day price.
(By the way, all you value hunters out there should know that some of our value-oriented experts are very interested in Facebook now that we have a couple of quarters of clarity on their strategies and execution...)
The Only Good News To Come from the Facebook Debacle
As I hope I've demonstrated, no one covers the big stories with the mix of insight and profitable advice the way Real Money does.
I could repeat this same exercise of sharing our contributors' advice surrounding the runup to the election...the cycles of Europanic and Eurorelief...earnings season...and more, but I'm sure you get the idea.
| | | Our readers sure do.
Here is an email our Ed Ponsi received on 5/21:
"Hello Ed, Just wanted to say thanks! You helped to keep me from doing something really stupid last week. At 9:30 Thursday evening, I canceled my request for the Facebook IPO. Whew!"
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