Private trading in tech companies like Facebook and Twitter picks up

Private trading in tech companies like Facebook and Twitter picks up

I suspect some of the demand is driven by freedom from regulation that increases the unpredictability in the calculation (and therefore, complexity and cost) without any corresponding benefit of increased potential profit. The partial and fallible enforcements carried out by the regulators offer no "justice", only a mechanism for picking winners and losers.

Here is a follow up, Goldman gets into the act for $500 million

Here is some number crunching on the question, is Facebook worth $50+ billion?

Here is a story on the 'dark pools' of equity trading