val·ue

[val-yoo]
noun
1. relative worth, merit, or importance: the value of a college education; the value of a queen in chess.

2. monetary or material worth, as in commerce or trade: This piece of land has greatly increased in value.

3. the worth of something in terms of the amount of other things for which it can be exchanged or in terms of some medium of exchange.

4. equivalent worth or return in money, material, services, etc.: to give value for value received.

5. estimated or assigned worth; valuation: a painting with a current value of $500,000.

via WSJ.com

NEW YORK—Facebook Inc. FB +1.25% shares rose 3.2% Wednesday, halting a two-day losing streak, as investors continued to analyze what went wrong with the company’s initial public offering.

Facebook shares gained $1 to finish at $32, gaining back some ground after falling 19% over Monday and Tuesday. The social network, which initially was valued at $104.1 billion, is now valued at about $87.7 billion.

Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304840904577421962367180038.html

A different perspective to consider.

Buy When There’s Blood In The Streets

Baron Rothschild, an 18th century British nobleman and member of the Rothschild banking family, is credited with saying that “The time to buy is when there’s blood in the streets.”

He should know. Rothschild made a fortune buying in the panic that followed the Battle of Waterloo against Napoleon. But that’s not the whole story. The original quote is believed to be “Buy when there’s blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own.”

This is contrarian investing at its heart – the strongly-held belief that the worse things seem in the market, the better the opportunities are for profit.

Most people only want winners in their portfolios, but as Warren Buffett warned, “You pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus.” In other words, if everyone agrees with your investment decision, then it’s probably not a good one.

Going Against the Crowd

Contrarians, as the name implies, try to do the opposite of the crowd. They get excited when an otherwise good company has a sharp, but undeserved drop in share price. They swim against the current, and assume the market is usually wrong at both its extreme lows and highs. The more prices swing, the more misguided they believe the rest of the market to be.

Read more: http://www.investopedia.com/articles/financial-theory/08/contrarian-investing.asp#ixzz1vFkJ7wMS

 

NASDAQ Official Price – FB
Open Price/Date $ 42 May 18, 2012	Close Price/Date $ 38.37 May 18, 2012

T.G.I.F. (Thank God Its Freeday).
It’s been quite a busy business day today which brings us to the evening hours to get our weekend started with some sound and wise expert perspectives to consider as listed above, plus it’s a good time to step outdoors.

Stay tuned.

A different perspective to consider.

Groupthink

Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within groups of people. It is the mode of thinking that happens when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives. Group members try to minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without critical evaluation of alternative ideas or viewpoints. Antecedent factors such as group cohesiveness, structural faults, and situational context play into the likelihood of whether or not groupthink will impact the decision-making process.

The primary socially negative cost of groupthink is the loss of individual creativity, uniqueness, and independent thinking. As a social science model, groupthink has an enormous reach and influences literature in the fields of communication studies, political science, social psychology, management, organizational theory, and information technology.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink

There is nothing to be alarmed about in this scenario!
It is simply an effort to provoke thinking to help coincide with the global buzz that is circulating regarding the Facebook stock market debut scheduled to happen within less then 12 hours.

 A different perspective to individually consider.

Life = Women & Money

Self Image

A person’s self-image is the mental picture, generally of a kind that is quite resistant to change, that depicts not only details that are potentially available to objective investigation by others (height, weight, hair color, gender, I.Q. score, etc.), but also items that have been learned by that person about himself or herself, either from personal experiences or by internalizing the judgments of others. A simple definition of a person’s self-image is their answer to this question -
“What do you believe people think about you?”.

Self-image may consist of three types:
1.Self-image resulting from how the individual sees himself or herself.
2.Self-image resulting from how others see the individual.
3.Self-image resulting from how the individual perceives others see him or her.

These three types may or may not be an accurate representation of the person. All, some or none of them may be true.

A more technical term for self-image that is commonly used by social and cognitive psychologists is self-schema. Like any schema, self-schemas store information and influence the way we think and remember. For example, research indicates that information which refers to the self is preferentially encoded and recalled in memory tests, a phenomenon known as “Self-referential encoding“.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-image

Welcome Home.
Today and the rest of this week will be devoted to a cram study session in preparation for the exam which is scheduled for Friday May 18, 2012 which is being conducted on Wall Street in the form of the social media organization known as Facebook making its official stock market debut in it’s first day of trading.

Simply put, it would seem as if the time has come for individuals in the technology services industry, and all business organizations that utilize information technology in their ventures to shift the focus towards the humanistic motivations which have created the overwhelming demand for the goods and services themselves. As an example.

It is self evident to anyone viewing this image that technology goods and services are in the palm of this attractive young woman’s hands, an image style that is abundant on all of the social media websites that allow for users to post their own content. What is the motivating factor and need that is looking to be served with this type of action and subsequent response?

My own personal guesstimation points to the term description that is listed above to begin this entry, and will act as a focal point for today’s study and self/business analysis.

Stay Tuned.