2:48 am Fri May 18, 2012  Facebook To Begin Trading On Nasdaq
Originally published on Fri May 18, 2012 2:49 pm     There you
have it, the sound of money. Mark Zuckerberg rang the opening
bell for the NASDAQ stock exchange this morning. Facebook, his
company, is going public today. The company's shares start
trading under the ticker symbol FB. And we talked about one of
the largest IPOs, initial public offerings, in history with
NPR's Steve Henn.  OK. When we say one of the largest in
history, how big is it here?  STEVE HENN, BYLINE: It's pretty
enormous. You know, before trading even starts today on Facebook
stock, the company's going to be valued at $104 billion. To put
that in perspective, it's slightly more than what McDonald's is
worth. It's more than what Amazon's worth, almost twice what
Goldman Sachs is worth. And when I think about IPOs, I tend to
think of them as a pie. This is a big pie. Facebook's pie is
$104 billion. But today it's not the whole pie that's going to
be for sale. Facebook is just s