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Weekly changes in Facebook stock prices

242 days ago

By The Associated Press

On its first day of trading, Facebook Inc.'s stock closed barely above its public offering price. It gained 23 cents, or 0.6 percent, to close at $38.23. Since then, the stock price fell for 10 weeks and increased for eight.

Facebook's stock started the week with a decline. It lost 10 cents, or 0.45 percent, to $21.90 in morning trading Monday. But the stock ended Friday at $22.86, up 3.9 percent for the week.

Here's are the closing prices each week since the first day of trading on May 18:

_ May 25: Closed at $31.91, down 17 percent for the week.

_ June 1: Closed at $27.72, down 13 percent for the week.

_ June 8: Closed at $27.10, down 2.2 percent for the week.

_ June 15: Closed at $30.01, up 11 percent for the week.

_ June 22: Closed at $33.05, up 10 percent for the week.

_ June 29: Closed at $31.09, down 5.9 percent for the week.

_ July 6: Closed at $31.73, up 2.1 percent for the week.

_ July 13: Closed at $30.72, down 3.2 percent for the week.

_ July 20: Closed at $28.76, down 6.4 percent for the week.

_ July 27: Closed at $23.71, down 18 percent for the week.

_ Aug. 3: Closed at $21.09, down 11 percent for the week.

_ Aug. 10: Closed at $21.81, up 3.4 percent for the week.

_ Aug. 17: Closed at $19.05, down 13 percent for the week.

_ Aug. 24: Closed at $19.41, up 1.9 percent for the week.

_ Aug. 31: Closed at $18.06, down 7 percent for the week.

_ Sept. 7: Closed at $18.98, up 5.1 percent for the week

_ Sept. 14: Closed at $22, up 16 percent for the week

__ Sept. 21: Closed at $22.86, up 3.9 percent for the week

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