Even though IPOs world-wide are rising by 43% on the first day of trading, first-day gains aren't as common in the U.S. Of the 53 U.S. deals priced in the last three months, the average price increase was 14% on the first day of trading.
Some investors who had bought Facebook shares in private transactions in the so-called secondary market before the IPO said they were disappointed the social network didn't have a strong first-day pop.
Mr. HESS: Well, for one thing, there won't be many people left anymore from the first day.
First of all, hasn't this day made you proud to be an American?
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What they perhaps didn't expect was to handle horses on their first day.
The salvage operation at the disaster site wound down on Monday, the first day in which workers didn't find a corpse.
The first score of the day didn't come until the ninth minute when O'Neill pointed but the Red Hands had already put the Armagh defence under pressure.
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Scott didn't make a bogey after the first hole, and he really didn't miss a shot the rest of the day on a rainy Sunday at Augusta.
He can't wait to get back and hopefully Friday will be his first day back.
The ITU's roundtable discussing the controversy over standard-essential patents has wrapped up its first day, and surprise -- there wasn't immediate harmony.
Even if I wasn't as cool and thoughtful as I hoped to appear, the first Earth Day's message was good then, and it's better today: We have to take care of the Earth.
American Hannah Kearney, who won the women's moguls on the first day of the Games, said afterwards she didn't even know if she'd have the money to compete at the next World Cup event, despite winning gold.
Steps are taken to prevent repeated automated entries, and the brackets are downloaded and protected before tip-off on the first day of the tournament to make sure they aren't changed, said Lori Shaw of the Entertainment Practice Group at insurance broker Aon Corp.
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Then there is the loosely regulated o-t-c market, where outfits like First Jersey Securities are having a field day (FORBES, July 16, 1984).
"I don't have the cash or the bench strength, but I told people on the first day what the name of the game was: growth and productivity, " he says.
First, just because a place is empty most of the day doesn't mean it's failing.
Mr. Bahlsen held a press conference the day after the first ransom note appeared, saying the firm doesn't respond to threats.
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"We didn't set out to be the first major show streamed online or deliver all 13 episodes on one day, " explains Willimon.
And the timing of his hiring didn't help, with Rolston's first players meeting occurring in a hotel in Toronto, a day before a game against the Maple Leafs.
"He wanted to tell us that there's something about him that we didn't know, " Portman said, reflecting on the day two years ago his son Will first told his parents he was gay.
"On the first day of training, my passing was absolutely ridiculous, I mean I couldn't even pass on my left-hand side, " he recalled.
Payton was absent for the meeting's first day but was allowed to come by league rules, since his suspension doesn't begin until April 1.
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Kathy and Zeitoun -- most people called him by his last name because they couldn't pronounce his first -- ran a company, Zeitoun A. Painting Contractor LLC, and every day their crews, their clients, everyone with a phone and their number, seemed to think that once the clock struck six-thirty, it was appropriate to call.
"And fortunately this isn't one of them, " quipped Jobs, addressing a crowd of European Macintosh-faithful on the first day of the Apple Expo trade show held annually in Paris.
Overall, the venture community's record is pretty good: Prices of its public offerings this year have risen an average 121% from first-day close through October, far outstripping the 33% of companies that aren't venture-backed.
It isn't clear which film was the first to start showings before 12:01 a.m. on its opening day.
The affair, which has inevitably become known as "homeworkgate, " certainly didn't help a struggling Australian side, which crashed to a six-wicket defeat at Mohali even with the first day being entirely wiped out by rain.
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