Jesse's Cafe has an interesting post onthe AliBaba IPO (see link on my bloglist)

quote
"There is a lot of juice behind this one, people. Barring any exogenous
incident, there are a lot of VSPs (Very Serious People) with a
vested interest in a calm market between now and the actual IPO date.
There will be more professional, highly skilled beauticians slapping
lipstick and makeup on this IPO than there are on the recent troubles in
the Ukraine."