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A new survey shows economists are growing slightly more optimistic about recovery in the job and housing markets but expect other pillars of the economy to remain weak.

Stock futures are rising with a new survey suggesting that economists are a bit more optimistic about housing and employment. The National Association for Business Economists' forecasters expect modest growth for the rest of 2012, with the pace picking up in 2013.

The most interesting story about investing and social media isn't that you can buy shares of Facebook -- it's the way so many advisers and investors are using social networking sites to connect with each other, and with market information.

The Facebook IPO is making dozens of people phenomenally rich. How rich? Check out CNBC's list of top shareholders, see and the amounts of their Facebook windfalls as they move based on the real-time price of the shares.

For your reading pleasure while you watch the roller coaster ride of Facebook's Friday trading debut, here's a list of facts about the company and CEO Mark Zuckerberg that aren't widely known.

If you don't want to hear anything that could spoil your Facebook (NAS: FB) coming-out party, you're better off clicking on to the next article. There are certainly things to like about Facebook as a business, but I don't think I need to tell you about them -- they're being well publicized right...

Facebook finally set its IPO price Thursday evening: $38 a share, for a record-setting value of $104 billion on the social media giant. Is it worth it? Who knows. But despite the skeptics, there are definitely ways to make money from all those Facebook users' eyeballs.