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The rocky music? jenna: yes, okay. all right. you're onto something. >> kind of like that. >> fred, thank you very much. fred barbash with cq. thank you. jon: my younger daughter had the lead in her school production of "annie". the sun will come out tomorrow. i could sing it for you. she was better at it. jenna: can we hear jon sing? jon: not right now. jenna: stay with us you might see it. jon: some other time. we are america's election headquarters and our next story could be a window just how rough this presidential campaign could get. the nasty sniping over the ad campaign that never got ...
right now. we're waiting for the ipo to move. $38 is what it is at. not to get too wonky, 421 million shares being put out there today. when this company goes public it will be valued more than general motors and ford put together. two iconic companies needless to say, that actually make stuff. this is a fascinating, sort of statement on american entrepreneural spirit. of course, mark zuckerberg and his cofounders putting all this together. again we're still waiting for the share at the moment, looking to indicate to open at $42 a share. $38 was the price. that ended up being a lot h...
liz, what is going on? >> trying to decide if this is bigger than who shot jr and a beatles reunion put together. for the america and for the world as you heard from bill hemmer even in uganda they're facebooking. we're looking at a trade that hasn't happened yet. remember this stock was priced at $38 a share for its initial public offering. i'm keeping my eye on it right now. it is about to start trading. it is indicated, getting orders of an indication of $42 a share. looks to move higher as soon as it starts trading. a company started in a dorm room used by 1/8 of the entire world...
Rests largely on that subject, and you're right, every week that some new number comes out that isn't good or unemployment isn't does not grow quite up to expectation is a bad week for president obama and a good week for governor romney. jon: and, fred, just as we've been speaking rasmussen reports is just out with its new daily tracking report, daily tracking poll, and the approval rating for mitt romney is now at 50%. that's the first time he's hit that number. >> uh-huh. jon: president obama's approval rating, apparently, at 43% in this daily tracking poll. >> yeah, well -- jon: go ahead. >...