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Kim-Mai Cutler is a technology journalist who has worked for Bloomberg, VentureBeat and The Wall Street Journal.

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC, the lead underwriter, last Tuesday released a statement defending its handling of the May 17 IPO after the Massachusetts Securities Division subpoenaed the investment bank over its communications with clients.

Just how many federal regulators have pored over financial documents and calling records, dissected trading ledgers for suspicious money movements and probed years of voice mails and e-mails, to no avail? Oh, to be sure, a few investigations have resulted in civil fines being paid with the caveat of not admitting or denying any wrongdoing.

In this May 21, 2012 file photo, television correspondent Sabrina Quagliozzi reports from inside the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York's Times Square.

Morgan Stanley European economics team recently increased the odds of a Greek exit from the euro to 35% within 18 months .

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NEW YORK - Facebook's stock price slipped again on Friday, down more than 15% from the price of its initial public offering one week ago - a market debut that infuriated investors and prompted a lawsuit.

The talk in Washington about heightened regulation - and what seems like an increasingly real risk that talk may translate into action this time - hasA investors buying more credit-default swaps on Wall Street banks.

NEW YORK -- European banks will sell an estimated $380-$760 billion in commercial real estate loans over the next five years, leading to investing and lending opportunities for several U.S. players, according to a Morgan Stanley report published Friday.

1 social network, fell 4 percent again Friday, a week after their disastrous debut in their initial public offering.

The Justice Department's internal ethics watchdog says two prosecutors in the bungled corruption case against Sen.

Retail investors with dreams of instant wealth who bought Facebook shares on opening day may have been disappointed, but they could still wind up with a windfall if lawyers seeking class-action status for lawsuits against the company and its IPO underwriters get their way.

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A law enforcement official says a man has told police he suffocated Etan Patz, the 6-year-old boy whose disappearance in 1979 helped give rise to the missing-children's movement that put youngsters' faces on milk cartons.

Closely-followed hedge fund manager John Paulson , who famously bet against the subprime housing market, had a disastrous 2011 with some of his funds falling 30 to 50 percent This year his Advantage funds are still in the red although those losses are said to be high single digits.

As Facebook Inc. and Morgan Stanley executives gathered on a call May 17 to arrange terms for the social-networking company's initial public offering, they faced a trade-off: set the IPO price low and give up enough money to let investors profit from a day-one pop -- or push the price high to help the company reap as much as possible from the sale.

The Long Island office of Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd filed the suit in the Southern District of New York District Court on behalf of Brian Roffe Profit Sharing Plan, Jacob Salzmann, Dennis Palkon and any others who lost money in the IPO.

Dunkin' Brands may take on more debt to buy back shares from its private-equity backers, including Bain Capital.

Regulators are examining whether Morgan Stanley selectively informed clients of an analyst's negative report about Facebook before the stock started trading.

Facebook's fourth day of trading as a public company saw an increase in the company's stock price and shareholder lawsuits related to the social network's botched initial public offering.