Meanwhile, the 30-day lockup clause expired, with no straight answer about funding from Firm X.
The biggest lockup expiration, freeing more than one billion shares, is set for Nov. 14.
Some 234 million shares of Facebook stock were freed up as part of the lockup expiration.
Anwar was arrested and tossed into a Kuala Lumpur lockup, where he suffered a severe beating.
Facebook fell 3.9% as a post-IPO lockup expired on millions of shares held by employees.
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As WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sits in a British lockup, his vigilante fan club is only growing.
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The political left long has argued against this mass, expensive lockup, favoring supervised parole, victim-restitution and clinical treatments.
Essentially, after three lockup expirations, the stock has risen as more shares are presumed to enter the market.
The biggest issue the industry faces is liquidity where a 10-year lockup with two 1-year extensions is the norm.
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The stock portion of the deal is subject to a 12-month lockup restriction.
The old pirate lockup, with two holding cells, doubles as the check-in area.
Rich media, news and economic data from a lockup site in Washington, D.
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Scherer too agrees that the lockup expiration will create additional pressure on the stock price in the short term.
Normally, the lockup period last 180 days but after the restatement the lockup will now expire on June 1.
The department also announced new lockup policies, including prohibiting reporters from using their own computers, pens and other equipment.
The department also rebuilt its lockup room with walls that block wireless signals.
Lehman couldn't sell the shares for 150 days after the Archstone deal, but that lockup period ended in late April.
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Resource Capital moved in late January to sell part of its Molycorp holdings as the lockup on insider transactions expired.
From the outside, the prospect of more lockup periods expiring makes buying the stock now a risky proposition at best.
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Typically, there is a 180 day lockup period before a private equity firm can sell its stake after an IPO.
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Though up today, the stock could swoon again when the lockup ends June 1 (delayed when Groupon restated financials for 2011).
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Lockup expirations in October, November and December will allow Mr. Zuckerberg and other employees to sell more than 1.4 billion shares.
There's other information for amateur traders as well, such as stocks where lockup periods on insider sales are about to expire.
Like all inside investors, they can't distribute or trade shares until the lockup period expires, usually six months after an initial offering.
Facing down a series of staggered lockup expirations means that the stock will face a series of challenges for a long time.
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After being forced to restate its earnings from 2011, Groupon postponed its release from lockup of all those shares insiders are holding.
Other investors may have already sold their stock in fear of the lockup expiring, and some are taking a bit of a breath.
Early investors like Peter Thiel and Dustin Moskovitz are bailing, and the stock took a major hit after the first lockup period expired.
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Not because the company had done anything, good or bad, but because the founder had sold shares at a discount outside the lockup.
"We discovered a flaw in the Department of Commerce's lockup system during a testing period sponsored by the department, " said a Bloomberg spokesman.
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