Asia’s markets are still dancing for IPOs
The Business Insider
SocGen's uber-bear Albert Edwards has been at it again, predicting on Monday that markets worldwide will hit a fresh low in 2010 and suggesting that a new global recession is on the way. Oh, and faith in growth stories is a "sick joke", he ...
Dollar General, rue21 to price IPOs this week
Investors Business Daily
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Dollar General Corp., a discount chain controlled by a Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. unit, and teen-apparel retailer rue21, inc. are expected to make their initial public offerings late this week. The deals, w...
China Real Estate shares jump 20 pct in IPO
AOL
founder of IPO Scoop, which tracks IPOs. "This was a big surprise, a happy surprise. They hit an unexpected home run." Fitzgibbon said investors had been rattled by some earlier IPOs of Chinese companies, particularly the September debut of...
High premium IPOs may mar chances of quick return
Economic Times
The leading news of the last week was the government's decision to divest its stake in profitable but unlisted public sector undertakings by offering them to the public through initial public offers. The union cabinet also approved a propos...
Pair of IPOs Trade Mixed
Wall Street Journal
The U.S. IPO market is closing out the week with a mixed pair of deals, as solar company STR Holdings Inc. rose and Chinese offset-machinery maker Duoyuan Printing Inc. declined Friday. The initial public offerings, both of which debuted on...
Scary study on how lack of IPOs is harming US economy
ZDNet Blogs
The lack of IPOs is certainly harming the Silicon Valley economy. With few IPOs, capital isn’t being returned into the VC funds, and the cycle of innovation is sputtering. A new study describes the larger picture. Grant Thornton, a large ac...
Soros May Invest in Minsheng, Longfor IPOs,Economic Journal Says
Bloomberg
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- George Soros, the billionaire hedge fund manager, seeks to invest $200 million in Chinese developer Longfor Properties Co.’s Hong Kong initial share sale, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reported, without saying where ...
China, Technology to Drive IPOs in 2010, Ernst & Young Says
Bloomberg
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- China, technology and private equity-backed companies will likely drive global initial public offering activity in 2010, a survey by accounting firm Ernst & Young LLP showed. The Chinese market will lead the global IP...
Dollar General IPOs this week
Chattahbox.com
(ChattahBox) — Discount retailer Dollar General Corp. is set to make its debut this week, trading on the New York Stock Exchange Friday under the symbol DG. Dollar General, which began in 1955 as one store in Kentucky, now has 8,700 stores,...
A Few Good IPOs?
The Business Insider
There is a new Grant Thornton report out arguing that the U.S. is suffering from an IPO drought caused by high-frequency trading and broken market microstructure (but not SarbOx). The alleged consequences? 22-million fewer jobs in the U.S. ...
Middle East IPO market set for 2010 revival as conditions stabilise
Gulf News
... to a recent report by Ernst & Young, a total of four companies listed in the Middle East in the third quarter of 2009 and raised $871.79 million (Dh3.2 billion) compared to five IPOs raising $1.021 billion in the previous quarter and 14...
Small Businesses Looking To Alternatives To IPOs For Funding
CNN Money
PALM SPRINGS -(Dow Jones)- The still-shaky market for IPOs may prompt smaller U.S. companies to remain private, opting to raise capital from private equity funds and other types of investors rather than the public. While the IPO market has ...
China Minsheng Bank, Sands Macau gearing for IPOs
Investors Business Daily
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- China Minsheng Banking Corp. and the Macau unit of Las Vegas Sands Corp. have reportedly firmed up plans for Hong Kong initial public offerings, potentially raising as much as $4.7 billion and $3.8 billion, respec...
WRAPUP 2-Longfor raises $912 mln in China IPO flurry
Reuters
HONG KONG, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Strong demand for a piece of a China property company and a brokerage show that selected IPOs are still being coveted despite investor fatigue with the surge of new listings. Chinese property developer Longfor ...
