It's a bad idea to use the price-per-plate as a measure for how much you should spend on the wedding gift, says Jessica Silvester, a deputy editor and wedding expert with New York magazine. You wouldn't give your best friend a less expensive gift just because she was having a more casual affair..
An initial public offering (IPO) refers to the first time a company publicly sells shares of its stock on the open market. It is also known as  going public ..
When more people demand shares of an IPO than the number of shares being offered, it is said to be oversubscribed. Getting a piece of a hot IPO that is oversubscribed is very difficult, if not impossible. To understand why, we need to look at how an IPO comes to be, a process known as underwriting.