IPO

Manchester United's IPO raised $230 million, but not much excitement. Why are investors coy about publicly traded sports teams?

With six companies going public this week, the hangover from Facebook's IPO appears to be easing.

Facebook has had a rocky road since it started selling shares and there are still big questions about Facebook's future. For instance: how, exactly, it plans to make money.

Fender Musical Instruments, whose electric guitars fueled the rise of rock and roll, is going public to tap new music markets in India and China.

The Senate Banking Committee is holding a hearing today into whether the IPO process is working for ordinary investors. At issue is whether regulators can level the playing field for big and small investors.

That title would actually go to a Chinese online gaming company.

A prospectus for Silicon Valley's next hot tech stock offering, where nothing could possibly go wrong. It's a company called Ponzify.

Published reports today suggest NASDAQ is working on a plan to compensate brokerages that lost perhaps $100 million when software fouled up the start of trading in Facebook's IPO last month.

It says there was a 30-minute glitch at the Facebook open a few weeks ago. Losses are estimated to be near $100 million.