Mark Zuckerberg returns to the scene and the Facebook stock flies to Wall Street, with an increase of more than 6 points, to 20,61 dollars per share. Yesterday evening, the founder of the social network spoke to journalists for the first time since the May IPO, admitting that he was "disappointed" by the performance of the shares and announcing that he wanted to bet on mobile telephony.
Result: today the trading volume on the Facebook stock is above average. Less than an hour after the start of the session, 38,6 million shares changed hands, against the average of 36,4 million. Market capitalization is also up, now at 44,14 billion dollars (with the IPO it had reached 104,1 billion).
The price of the IPO had been set at $38: on the first day it had reached $45, before falling steadily to below $18 per share in recent days.
