FT Alphaville " The closer US equity markets ended the day slightly down as trading thinned going into the long Easter weekend, and earlier in the day Spanish bond yields climbed to multi-month highs to make this their worst week of trading this year. Facebook chose Nasdaq over Nyse for its upcoming listing, which is expected to raise about $10bn and might value the company as high as $100bn. (Wall Street Journal) The news had a noticeable impact on the performance of each exchange's shares. Clusterstock BlueGold Capital is liquidating its portfolio, telling investors in a letter that it would conduct an "orderly closure" after its portfolio fell by 34 per cent last year. "A US court has revived Viacom's landmark $1bn copyright infringement complaint against Google's YouTube subsidiary, throwing open a case that has long symbolised the distrust and resentment felt by parts of the media industry towards the search company," the FT reports. It's Good Friday, but that won't stop the US employment situation report from coming out at 8:30am EST. Consensus is for a payroll number of around 200,000 and the unemployment rate to stay flat at 8.3 per cent. The truth about investment banking in Asia. Corridors and floors in monetary policy. Video of the panels at the Kauffman economics bloggers forum. The future of the US economy: Apple, Exxon, and robots. The rebound in housing markets. This entry was posted by FT Alphaville on Thursday, April 5th, 2012 at 22:39 and is filed under Capital markets.