With another 777 million Faceboook shares coming off their lock-up restrictions next week, this stock dump will continue for much of the rest of the year.
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One theory is that it was part of a pump and dump stock operation.
Since it ended, investors have been worried that Lehman might dump the stock, driving down the share price.
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Ritholtz suggests investors dump this stock, as there will likely be no upswing, and they'll be left riding it down to zero.
''I did not dump any stock in Enron because I knew or even suspected that the company was in financial trouble, '' he said.
Here's some investment advice: If a public company or a top executive of a public company buys one of these teams, dump the stock.
"A CEO can no longer tell investors that the company is doing great and continue to dump his stock quietly on the side, " says Silverman.
As investors dump Pandora stock after the company delivered a strong third quarter but missed on guidance, analysts are still considering the stock a buy.
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Seems like an odd reason to dump the stock.
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But if GM goes out tomorrow and buys a jet for its executives, shareholders might as well dump their stock now because it means all the progress the company has made over the past three and a half years has been wasted.
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Ordinarily in a mega takeover, the shares of the acquiring company sell off after the completion of the deal as some shareholders of the acquired company dump their new stock.
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Translated: Next time, I swear to God, I'll dump every last tech stock I own the very second I overhear water-cooler speculation about when Nasdaq will overtake the Dow.
AUTL's rise and fall was a classic "pump 'n' dump" scheme perpetrated on stock message boards practically every day.
Joe Kennedy famously claimed that he knew it was time to dump shares when he got a stock tip from a shoeshine boy in New York.
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The calls to dump your bonds and switch to the stock market are beginning to reach a perfectly intense pitch.
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Bank of America shares fell 3 percent in trading the day after Mr. Assange made his threat against a nameless bank, and while the stock has since recovered, the prospect of a Bank of America data dump from WikiLeaks remains a concern, said Moshe Orenbuch, an analyst with Credit Suisse.
Before the new rules a mutual fund or hedge fund that wanted to dump 100, 000 shares of Microsoft quickly could, for example, bypass the New York Stock Exchange and sell them all at once on a different exchange if it saw an open order to buy 100, 000 shares--even if the offer price on the NYSE was a nickel higher.
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