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THE NEW YORK Stock Exchange says its test run of Twitter’s initial public offering on Saturday was a success, as the exchange takes pains to avoid the technical problems that marred Facebook’s debut.
While the NYSE frequently does testing on the weekend, this was the first time the exchange conducted a mock IPO. Early Saturday, traders from member firms gathered with NYSE staff to run simulated buy and sell orders, test the flow of those orders and open the stock.
“The systems test was successful, and we’re grateful to all the firms that chose to participate,” NYSE spokeswoman Marissa Arnold said in a statement. “We are being very methodical in our planning for Twitter’s IPO, and are working together with the industry to ensure a world class experience for Twitter, retail investors and all market participants.”
Twitter will be the biggest technology IPO since Facebook went public in May 2012. While Nasdaq won Facebook’s listing, one of the biggest IPOs in years, the debut was hit with trading delays and order failures. The Securities and Exchange Commission later fined Nasdaq $10 million, the largest sum ever levied against an exchange.
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Twitter, which is expected to go public sometime before Thanksgiving, has chosen to list on the New York Stock Exchange. It plans to sell 70 million shares between $17 and $20 each for a possible take of $1.6 billion. Shares will trade under the ticker “TWTR.”
This year has been a hot one for IPOs as sharp gains in the stock market have boosted demand for initial public offerings. Over 150 companies have gone public in the US this year, up more than 50 per cent from the same period in 2012, according to recent data.
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Speaking from experience, the amount of assaults reported is nothing to compare as to the amounts happening. Between drug and alcohol abuse and dementia it’s nearly an everyday occurrence. It’s not going to change. Most of the damage is done before security arrive.
@Mary Ryan: This is a fact. As a patient myself I witnessed two Porter’s being assaulted by a group of people. They asked the nurse in charge that it be recorded in some book, and were told she was too busy come back later. One replied, the usual, never then but if it was a nurse…
Only 1 way to sort this, Zero tolerance , major fines /jail time.its just not good enough that people doing this job are at risk.
Let me guess 300 suspended sentences too
*300 assaults have been reported. And probably mostly serious ones. A lot more happening that get swept under the carpet. A very difficult job that is taken for granted.
Perpetrators need to know that actions have consequences,
What’s happened to Ireland it’s rapidly going down the toilet and getting out of control ?
@Melanie Tournier: It’s nothing new sadly, more a case of lack of “maintenance” in hospital funding, health policy, policing and the criminal justice system exasperating, amplifying and highlighting underlying issues.
How many prosecutions have been made? Mandatory sentences should apply to thugs, alcoholics and drug addicts who attack hospital staff, not enough prison places, build private ones like they have in the USA…
@Charles Coughlan: private prisons are and shall remain a terrible idea
@Charles Coughlan: “build private ones like they have in the USA”
Terrible idea. Private prisons turn law and order into a business, a numbers game where all that matters is the bottom line. It leads to aggressive prosecution of minor offences and the incarceration of addicts, prostitutes and others who should be helped rather then locked up. It has corrupted justice in the US to a shameful degree.
Law and order should only be managed and controlled by the government and by the consent of the people.
In fairness, some of the patients can’t help it. When someone with Alzheimer’s or dementia lashes out because of fear etc it’s generally not reported. If it is, it’s only to try and get extra resources for them. Patients waking up from general anaesthetic throw the odd box as they’re so disorientated. Again, never reported
@rosetheone: True…some patients can’t help it but with the drunks and drug addicts… its self inflicted….and I still have a duty of care to those people, but I should not be subjected to the level of abuse I am, in the course of doing my job, without proper measures in place to safeguard my well being.
@rosetheone: Exactly. Infections especially uti’s play havoc with older peoples brains…they don’t mean it. I’ve seen elderly people as gentle as lambs hit out and get aggressive because of an infection they have. I nearly got my arm broken by an 88 year old man! and I’m strong!! .The strength of him. And he jumped out of bed when I managed to free myself and ran for us. We had to lock ourselves in the kitchen. We did laugh after it over the madness of it…but it’s kept me on guard…
@rosetheone: But it should be reported. No one is ever going to do a thing to help unless every assault is logged. Report it. Every time.
I really think people who commit crimes and are getting off on suspended sentences etc should all be made do community service, pick up litter and the sort. Actually having to go out and do a bit work would kill them. Same for people on long term unemployment as on never had a job.
Have a separate clinic/building for the drug addicts, hospital tourists, and stop escorting Joy prisoners into a public space.
Also, you see those backed up trollies belonging to Dublin fire brigade, come up with a better way to register patients so these men/women and ambulances can get back on the road.
@M: completely agree about prisoners sitting around the public cafes hand cuffed. They should be in their room, not parades around and made a spectacle of because the POs want a change of scenary
@rosetheone: Mad isn’t it. Trust me, it doesn’t happen in Spain, Italy, France but possibly the UK.
Spent a night recently in Tallaght University Hospital A&E. Not for the faint hearted. The real dregs of society assaulting and shouting racist abuse at the security guards and at the triage nurse. The nurse to be fair was having none of it and put them in their place, which I really admired. I do worry about the type of people being raised now and given how reliant they are on state do nothing but bring it down for those who pay for it all.
@Darren Bates: All the same, they don’t sound very employable either.
Completely exaggerated. Who comes up with these numbers. Lies.
@Vory2Stars: Any back-up for that dismissal?
@Alan McArdle: Yes.
@Vory2Stars: do tell.
@Alan McArdle: I assaulted at least 400 since January.
@Vory2Stars: Troll! Go comment elsewhere!!
@DeeM: I’m not a troll. Fake news.
@Vory2Stars: yes you are…not fake news!! I’m an A&E nurse in Beaumont….I have been assaulted by drunks, drug users and people with mental health issues…4 times this year….so far!
@Vory2Stars: surprised you’ve survived. Although suppose you were in the right place after getting a hiding.
@G Manning: hopefully the boll0x was left on a trolley for hours.
@M: No I was in and out like Mike Tyson.
@DeeM: Stinger.
So not one doctor was assaulted……….really?
And how many patients are killed or suffer irreparable life changing injury as a result of mal-practice/negligence by Nurses, Doctors etc??? Another case in the courts this week where a woman died (murdered) because the wrong drug dosage was given for a number of weeks! €280,000 comp payout but no one goes to prison.
@Fred Coloe: Why don’t you become a doctor/nurse Fred?
@Fred Coloe: you seem to think you could do a better job
@Fred Coloe: human error Fred, and an bord altrainis do sanction nurses in these cases, up to and including dismissal,
Never going to change, until nurses take time off for verbal as well as physical assaults, and sue their employers, truth
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