Nasdaq Fails to Appease Facebook Losers

Nasdaq's plan sent the New York Stock Exchange, which lost the Facebook IPO to the Nasdaq, straight up the wall, complaining that means Nasdaq will be rewarded for failure with more business.

Sanford Bernstein, mostly a smart cookie, put a $25 price target on the stock Monday citing the "material risk" of whether or not the company can meet its 2013 forecasts because of decelerating ad earnings.

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