Arthur Luiz Lopes do Nascimento

I am Artur Luiz Lopes do Nascimento, was born and live in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, I'm 18 years old. Began my student career in colégio balãozinho mágico where I studied until the old 4th grade and i moved to colégio marista de natal staying until the 7th year and enrolled in colégio salesiano são josé where I studied until the 3rd year of high school and tried exam.
I chosen the course of science and technology because it was still in doubt in which engineering I wanted to do. like listening to music of different styles, like going out for fun and chat with friends, I like to watch movies, I like surfing the internet and do some sports like soccer and water polo and i like read some newspapers and stay on top of things happening in the world an in our region.
howerver i have aimed to graduate and be a mechanical engineer, have a family and succeed in my professional career.

Facebook IPO: What the %$#! happened?

Facebook's IPO was a mess from day one, with Nasdaq delays and trading issues. Now shareholders are suing and the stock has plunged.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Facebook's breathlessly hyped IPO on Friday has turned into a huge Wall Street debacle, with lots of confusion -- and now, lawsuits -- swirling around.

Here's the still-developing blow-by-blow of how the biggest tech IPO in U.S. history became such a mess.

What happened on Friday? The strangeness began at the most basic level: actually opening Facebook for trading on Friday.

The regular U.S. stock markets trading day begins at 9:30 a.m, but IPOs listed on the Nasdaq exchange typically don't start trading until at least an hour later. Nasdaq told traders early Friday that it expected Facebook (FB) shares to begin trading at 11 a.m.

Then 11 a.m. came and went -- with no trading. The next half-hour was full of handwringing and confusion, until shares began trading around 11:30 a.m. Trading was fast and intense, with more than 80 million shares changing hands in the first 30 seconds.

Soon, some traders began complaining that it didn't seem like their orders were being completed. Others found that they were getting shares at a higher price than they expected.

The details were unclear on Friday, but on Monday, Nasdaq published a mea culpa explaining that the trading delay was due to a "technical error." That's a mild term for what became a huge issue.

Following its usual procedures, Nasdaq started the process that should have led to the stock's first official trade at 11:05 a.m. Friday. In that process, Nasdaq matches up orders to buy shares with orders to sell.

On Friday, the process fell into an unexpected loop because many traders submitted changes to their orders before the opening trade began. At 11:30, Nasdaq switched to another system, finally allowing the exchange to complete the process.

Some orders that came in during the switchover didn't go through, or were filled at an inferior price later in the day. Also, many orders that went through weren't confirmed until hours later. That left investors unsure about how many shares they bought or sold, and at what price.

The error's ripple effects have lasted for days. Some brokerages said late Tuesday that they still weren't sure if some of their orders had closed, or at what price.

Five days later, Nasdaq is still trying to untangle all of the problems. Meanwhile, traders who took losses because of the error are waiting to hear what Nasdaq plans to do about compensating them. That's going to be another giant wrangle.

So Nasdaq blew it. Why are shareholders suing Facebook? Totally separate from the Nasdaq issues, there's a regulatory investigation beginning into how Facebook and its bankers handled sensitive financial information.

A group of Facebook shareholders filed a lawsuit in a New York district court on Wednesday, alleging that important information about Facebook's financial outlook was "selectively disclosed" to big banks ahead of the IPO.

The legal action followed a Reuters report posted late Tuesday, which alleges that analysts at lead underwriter Morgan Stanley (MS, Fortune 500) received privileged information about Facebook's financials -- information that wasn't shared with regular folks.

As a separate Reuters report noted a few hours later, Morgan Stanley and three other major underwriters -- Goldman Sachs (GS, Fortune 500), JPMorgan (JPM, Fortune 500) and Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500) -- reduced their earnings outlooks for Facebook to strikingly similar levels ahead of the IPO.

It's odd that four different banks would cut their estimates to similar sums in a short timeframe, and it raises the question of whether small shareholders were left out of back-door conversations.

More specifically, the lawsuit alleges that Facebook told analysts at its underwriters "to materially lower their revenue forecasts for 2012."

But it's still unclear whether those conversations actually happened -- and even if they did, were they illegal? That's a swampy gray area. Facebook released a statement on Wednesday saying the suit is "without merit," and Morgan Stanley says it followed "the same procedures for the Facebook offering that it follows for all IPOs."

Why has the stock price fallen so much? Facebook's stock ended close to flat in its debut on Friday, and it touched the $38 IPO price many times during the day. It never fell below that level, leading market watchers to assume that the underwriters were buying shares to keep the price above water.

Facebook closed at nearly $4 under that level on Monday, the stock's first full day of trading. The decline continued on Tuesday, though the stock was up modestly in midday trade Wednesday.

That surprised many people: Recent tech IPOs have generally "popped" on day one -- even those of unprofitable companies like reviews site Yelp (YELP).

Some market watchers are saying that Nasdaq's glitch and other technical trading issues are contributing to Facebook's stock plunge.

"It's a day trader's paradise right now," Douglas DePietro, managing director for sales trading and trading execution at Evercore Partners, told CNNMoney. "There's high volatility and high volume."

But Facebook's final IPO price, $38 a share, gave it a valuation in the ballpark of $100 billion -- a number that many analysts, ahead of the IPO, repeatedly warned was remarkably high given Facebook's financial fundamentals.

All of the drama around Facebook's IPO may have some investors taking a very close look at the company -- and thinking twice about what its stock is really worth.

--CNNMoney's Hibah Yousuf contributed to this report. 

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Yago Ramon Gouveia Cabral

My name is Yago Ramon Gouveia Cabral, I am 19 years old. I was born in Natal/RN. I live in a house with my parents and my sister, I don’t have pets. I am a very active person, I always look for respecting the others and I like when others respect me.

I chosen the course of the BCT because I wanted more time to decide which course to join and because I am interested in technology. I want to join the field of mechanical engineering or petroleum engineering because I was always interested by the two areas. I had an influence of my father who works at Petrobras, and always liked to read magazines that showed the petroleum world. Beyond the personal taste for the technology in general.

            I like to play water polo. I usually travel with the team UFRN to compete in other locations representing the state. I dream to travel the world and learning about new cultures. I like any kind of music, especially brazilian music. My favorite food is Japanese; sometimes I go to restaurants with my family. My family is a daily inspiration to achieve my goals, I am a Christian and I believe I can change the world with my faith and my effort to achieve my goals.

Matheus Santiago de Melo

Hi, my name is Matheus Santiago de Melo. I was born in Parelhas/RN, but, as soon as I was born, I came to Natal/RN, where I´m still living.

I´ve chosen BC&T course because I enjoy technology area and I intend to be a mechanic engineer so that I work with cars.

I have a girlfriend, her name is Larissa. First time I met her was on the beach, I love her too much and we are together since 2009.

I like to practice sports like soccer and water polo. I also like to play  videogame, to go out with my friends and, sure, to stay with my girlfriend Larissa, who I love so much.  My favourite  music styles are forró, MPB, reggae and hip hop. My favourite foods are shrimp, filet à Parmegiana, hot dog, pizza, cake and icecream.

On weekends I usually spend my time with friends, girlfriend and family. I use to watch films and go to bars.

My dream is to be a recognized mechanic engineer and work on Formula 1, to keep my friends close to me, to marry with my girlfriend Larissa, to travel around the world and to have a beautiful family.

Bruno Eduardo Carrilho

Hi, My name is Bruno Eduardo, I am eighteen years old. I was born in Natal, state of Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil. I started my school life when I was three years old, I Studied the whole life in the Complexo Educacional Contemporâneo, there I met some friends.

I have one sister, and I live in a house with my parents, my sister as well as my dog. I am very quiet, stubborn and sincere also I am not to get friends easily. In my free times I like to go out with my friends and to do exercises at gym and I spend some time at computer and too I like of soccer and videogames. However my favorite hobby is to watch movies in my house or at movies. My favorite kinds of movie are comedy besides action. 

My favorites bands are Turma do Pagode and Revelação, I usually listen to while driving my car. Nevertheless I listen several kind of music like forró and axé.One of my dreams is to travel all over the world and meet famous city like: Paris, Barcelona and London.

In the university I prefer to study calculus, for this reason I choose the course of Sciense and Technology also because I could choose what course of engineering that I want to do. Today I think that I will choose the Computation engineering because I like to build electronic devices.

Pedro Henrique Souza

My name is Pedro Henrique de Souza Araújo, I'm 18. I was born in Monte Alegre, RN, and my two brothers, I attended my elementary school until the 8th year in school, Centro EducacionalPH3, a private institution, located in Parnamirim-RN. From the 9th, I changed my school, I went to study in Complexo EducacionalContemporâneo.

To meet the demands of the study had to go to live in Natal-RN, home of relatives. Follow this form during the first nine years of elementary school and all my high school. At the end of high school and joining UFRN, Ciencia e Tecnologia student, came back to live with my parents in Monte Alegre.

I consider myself a healthy young person, I do not usually eat foods that will harm my health. I really like sports, but I am passionate about football. Another sport that I identify very vaquejada is why my favorite animal is the horse.

Now the university, I dedicate my attention to it. For the moment my goal is one, to become a Mechanical Engineer.

João Victor de Araújo

My name is João Victor de Araújo, I´m 18 years old and I was born in Ceará-Mirim town, Rio Grande do Norte. I live with my parents and my sister.

 I started to study in Ceará-Mirim – where I studied untill the fourth year of the basic education- and finished my high school in Natal city, at Salesiano São José School. When I finished my high school, in the same year, I did vestibular to Science and Technology at Rio Grande do Norte Federal University.

I always wanted to be an engineer, but I´m not sure about what kind of engineer I intend to be. So, I chose Science and Technology course because of the opportunity that the course gives to me to choose the engineering that seems with me. And now I´m in doubt between oil or mechanic engineering.

I like sports, principally soccer, TV programs, movies and go out with my friends.