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Investor Roundtable

The lessons from Facebook's rocky IPO

The Roundtable team argues that first day trading was akin to consumers lining up for the latest gadget

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Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg
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Video: Is Facebook in the same league as Apple and Google?

The social media giant has a lot of work ahead to justify its massive valuation

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A protester holds up a Greek flag during an anti-austerity demonstration in front of the parliament in Athens Feb. 22, 2012.
Investor Roundtable

Should the bond market be worried about Greece?

Italy and Spain are becoming the real issue as Greece has already been written off by much of the global market

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Investor Roundtable

Is Canadian debt as bad as Mark Carney says?

The Bank of Canada boss keeps warning of dangerously high debt loads, but his predecessor is disagreeing

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Investor Roundtable

Is Apple too good to be true?

The Roundtable discusses how the law of large numbers will mean an eventual shift to slow growth for Apple

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Billionaire investor Warren Buffett laughs as he appears with Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates for a town hall style meeting with business students broadcast by financial television network CNBC at Columbia University in New York in this Nov. 12, 2009 file photo.
Investor Roundtable

What have we learned from Warren Buffett?

The Roundtable panel discusses the lessons investors can take away after the business mogul announced he has cancer

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Reflecting the outlook for earnings season, expectations have tumbled for Alcoa, with analysts reducing their consensus estimate for profit from 7 cents a share to a loss of 1 cent a share.
Investor Roundtable

Alcoa: A harbinger for better-than-expected U.S. earnings?

The aluminum giant kicked off the season with better numbers than the market's dim outlook

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Trader Michael Zicchinolfi works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, March 30, 2012.
Roundtable

Can markets stand without the policy crutch?

With central banks signalling that more policy supports are unlikely, the Roundtable ponders whether the economy - and the markets - are ready

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Investor Roundtable

Growth, bonds and China: Market themes for the second quarter

The Roundtable panel looks ahead to the big issues facing investors

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Gold bars are pictured in this file photo.
Investor Roundtable

Is gold's bull market at an end?

With prices for bullion and gold stocks fading, the Roundtable panel discusses what's put the brakes on the rally and what's next

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