The private equity company General Atlantic has agreed to purchase 2.5 million shares of the social network Facebook. The price of the deal will lead to market valuation of targets 65 billion dollars for Internet company. The shares will be bought by former employees of the social network and will give General Atlantic share of 0.1 per cent in the capital of the company. At this stage, however, the transaction is not confirmed by either of the two countries. The estimates indicate that the deal increases the market value of Facebook with just 30 percent from January to date. Then the network received funding of $ 500 million, leading to the estimate of 50 billion dollars. This means that Facebook, which has not yet publicly traded company is valued much higher than companies like Yahoo and E-Bay. However, the network is far from the value that have Google and Amazon.

The first month of the new year has brought a loss of securities markets in the Asian and Pacific region. National stock indexes registered significant decreases on a monthly basis, which are highest for measures of stock in China and Hong Kong. They lost between 6% and 10% of its value last month amid a tightening of monetary policy of many central banks. The regional index MSCI Asia Pacific fell 2.5 percent below its closing by the end of December 2009 This is the strongest part of its loss in February 2009 then the stock measure, which covers the securities markets in ten Asian countries, plus Australia and New Zealand, losing 10 percent in one month and fell to multi-floor because of the crisis in the global economy. During today’s trading MSCI Asia Pacific sank 1.7 percent to 117.05 points up and is on track to record strong weekly loss of 4.5 percent. This is the strongest weekly decline for the regional index of March 2009 The reason for this largely rose the news that the central banks of China, India and the U.S. tightened its monetary policy, which will reduce investments in financial assets. Central Bank of India today increased the minimum mandatory reserves commercial banks must hold as a deposit on it. The rate now stands at 5.75 per cent of their deposits to the previous 5 percent, cited by Bloomberg. This is a measure to withdraw excess liquidity from the economy of India, which along with China is the fastest growing Asian country.
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