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U.S. stocks fell, sending benchmark gauges down a sixth day, as Facebook Inc.’s debut failed to inspire optimism after its record initial public offering.

Stocks rose earlier today after Facebook’s record IPO made the social network more costly than almost every company in the S&P 500. Nasdaq had said it would start quoting Facebook at 10:45 a.m. New York time and begin trading of Facebook at about 11 a.m. It then delayed the open by five minutes before sending the notice that there was a problem. The shares started trading at 11:30 a.m.
Facebook sold 421.2 million shares at $38 each to raise $16 billion. That values the Menlo Park, California-based company at $104.2 billion, or 107 times trailing 12-month earnings, more than every S&P 500 member except Amazon.com Inc. and Equity Residential.

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Current price: 1304,75

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Support 3:1242 (Dec 28-29 lows)

U.S. stock futures advanced as better-than-estimated corporate profits tempered concern about a worsening of Europe’s debt crisis.

Facebook Inc. (FB) is set to start trading today after a record initial public offering that made the social network more costly than almost every company in the S&P 500.

Global Stocks:

Nikkei  8,611.31 -265.28 -2.99%

Hang Seng 18,951.85 -249.08 -1.30%

Shanghai Composite 2,344.52 -34.37 -1.44%

Closed 725.54 -21.62 -2.89%

FTSE  5,294.78 -43.60 -0.82%

CAC  3,008.05 -3.94 -0.13%

DAX 6,307.45 -1.51 -0.02%

Crude oil $92.24 (-0.35%).

Gold $1587.70 (+0.82%).

European stocks dropped after Moody’s Investors Service downgraded Spanish lenders.

Moody’s lowered debt ratings at 16 Spanish banks, citing mounting loan losses, the country’s recession, restricted access to funds and the reduced ability of the government to support lenders as its own creditworthiness diminishes.

Currently:

FTSE  5,284.59 -53.79 -1.01%

CAC  3,003.36 -8.63 -0.29%

DAX 6,293.45 -15.51 -0.25%

Asian stocks fell, with the regional benchmark index erasing this year’s gains, after U.S. economic data missed estimates and ratings agencies downgraded Spanish banks and Greece as Europe’s debt crisis deepens.N

Nikkei 225 8,611.31 -265.28 -2.99%

Hang Seng 18,901.01 -299.92 -1.56%

S&P/ASX 200 4,046.46 -110.95 -2.67%

Shanghai Composite 2,344.52 -34.37 -1.44%

Samsung Electronics Co., a consumer-electronics maker that gets 40 percent of sales from Europe and America, dropped 4.7 percent in Seoul as exporters tumbled.

Japanese machinery makers plunged in Tokyo after sales growth slowed at industry bellwether Caterpillar Inc.

The Hang Seng China Enterprises Index of Hong Kong-listed Chinese companies fell as much as 20 percent from its high for the year on Feb. 29 after home prices slid in a record number of mainland cities during April.

Asian stocks rose, with the regional gauge poised to end a six-day losing streak, as faster-than- estimated economic growth in Japan and optimism the Federal Reserve will do more to stimulate the U.S. economy outweighed concern Greece’s debt crisis is worsening.

Nikkei 225 8,876.59 +75.42 +0.86%

S&P/ASX 200 4,157.4 -8.13 -0.20%

Shanghai Composite 2,378.89 +32.69 +1.39%

Li & Fung Ltd., a supplier for Wal-Mart Stores Inc., rose 1.7 percent.

Korea Gas Corp. jumped 6.4 percent in Seoul after a report it discovered gas in Mozambique.

Toshiba Corp., the maker of Regza brand televisions, gained 5.6 percent in Tokyo after saying it will stop television production in Japan.

Toll Holdings Ltd., an Australian trucking company, slid 6.8 percent, extending yesterday’s losses after forecasting lower full-year profit.

Change % Change Last

Nikkei   8,876.59 +75.42 +0.86%

Hang Seng 19,200.93 -58.90 -0.31%

S&P/ASX   4,157.41 -8.12 -0.19%

Shanghai Composite 2,378.89 +32.69 +1.39%