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The former financing arm of General Motors took a step towards an initial public offering after the US Treasury said it would convert part of its stake into common stock [...]

Plan to halve the timetable for listings More than $8bn in IPOs pulled this year UK investment banks are planning to cut by more than half the amount of time [...]

Diamond miner set to relax ownership rules Group will have route to raise investment Alrosa, De Beers' Russian rival, is considering a stock market flotation in 2012 in a move [...]

More than [pounds sterling]1bn was raised on Aim in November through initial public offerings and secondary fundraisings, making it the junior market's best month of the year by far. Secondary [...]

Electronic Equipment Edwards, the vacuum technology supplier to the world's biggest chipmakers, has abandoned plans for a sale of the company and will instead pursue an initial public offering next [...]

Company blames market volatility Huaneng Renewables, the clean energy unit of China's largest power generator, has cancelled at the last minute a Hong Kong initial public offering worth up to [...]

GENERAL FINANCIAL Chinese stock exchanges, including the Hong Kong bourse, have raised almost triple the amount of money secured by initial public offerings across the US in 2010, underscoring China's [...]

General financial Mainland offerings raise $66.9bn Shift in activity to emerging markets Chinese stock exchanges, including the Hong Kong bourse, have raised almost triple the amount of money secured by [...]

Shares in Flybe surged nearly 16 per cent on Friday in the Exeter-based airline's first day of trading on the London Stock Exchange. The regional carrier, which has looked at [...]

A pair of Chinese internet companies soared on their first day of trading in New York on Wednesday, rounding off a strong year for Chinese initial public offerings on a [...]

Shares surge on New York debut But analysts warn of risk in market Youku, China's largest online video company, raised a higher than expected $203m in its initial public offering [...]

News analysis Anousha Sakoui looks at what has turned out to be an impressive year for corporate flotations It may come as a surprise, given the volatility in financial markets, [...]

Even the most diehard optimist in the City would admit that IPOs have had a mixed press this year. Yes, there have been successes, such as Jupiter Asset Management and [...]

News analysis The amount of withdrawn IPOs has risen, say Telis Demos , Robert Cookson and Michael Stothard By one measure, it has been a busy autumn for stock market [...]

Travel & Leisure After several false starts, Flybe has finally announ-ced plans to float on the London Stock Exchange. Defying market nervousness about the debt crisis in the eurozone, the [...]

As a stockbroker in the City of London in the 1980s, one of my hobbies was 'stagging' hot new issues. Applying for shares in a company going public for the [...]

electricity EuroSibEnergo, a power utility controlled by Oleg Deripaska, the Russian metals tycoon, has postponed its Hong Kong listing until it finalises a deal to sell a cornerstone stake to [...]

CRCB is country's first rural lender to be listed Group's plans continue despite unclear market Chongqing Rural Commercial Bank, one of China's largest lenders to farmers and small businesses, plans [...]

Animal-feed group abandons IPO Share sale falls foul of market volatility An animal-feed producer backed by Blackstone has scrapped a $1.56bn Hong Kong initial public offering as financial volatility scuppers [...]

Kinder Morgan, the pipeline company that was taken private by its chief executive in 2006, has filed plans for a $1.5bn initial public offering. The shares being sold are owned [...]

NON-LIFE INSURANCE Gjensidige Forsikring, Norway's largest general insurance company, has launched what is expected to be the country's biggest stock market flotation since the part-privatisation of Statoil nearly a decade [...]

INDUSTRIAL transport QR National, the Australian rail freight operator, became the country's second-biggest initial public offering at the weekend after selling A$4bn (US$3.9bn) of shares. The float represents one of [...]

travel & leisure Harrah's, the US casino company controlled by the private equity firms Apollo and TPG, pulled its initial public offer after investors balked at paying about $15 a [...]

Restructuring 'Government Motors' became General Motors again this week, 17 months after the Obama administration rescued the carmaker, fired its chief executive and pushed it through bankruptcy. Ron Bloom, who [...]

CARS Shares trade well above offer price Key step in Detroit carmaker's revival General Motors returned as a public company on Thursday, with its newly listed shares trading well above [...]

CARS Shares close 3.6% above offer price Obama defends carmaker's rescue General Motors made a strong return to the stock market on Thursday, allowing US President Barack Obama to trumpet [...]

CARS The US Treasury is increasing the number of common shares it plans to sell in the General Motors initial public offering on Wednesday, potentially making it the biggest flotation [...]

POWER PLAYER Jim French CEO, Flybe If and when Exeter-based airline Flybe arrives at a stock market flotation - a flight path it is expected to announce this week - [...]

Mining IPOs The raw materials sector has found a new centre of attraction, writes Leslie Hook China's appetite for commodities is having a little-noticed side effect: global resources companies are [...]

This year's flotations on the main market have outperformed the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 indices, according to research from Deloitte published on Monday, writes David Blackwell . The accountancy [...]

OIl & gas Petronas has raised $4.1bn in an initial public offering of its newly formed chemicals arm in south-east Asia's biggest listing. Shares in Petronas Chemicals were priced at [...]

Cars Analyst discussed details of issue Carmaker says refunds a possibility An e-mail from a UBS analyst has caused General Motors to drop the Swiss bank from the roster of [...]

For anyone in doubt that China is the market the world's investment banks are most desperate to make their own, just take a look at the roster of the groups [...]

industrial transport Rush to list as yards stage recovery South Korea's STX Group plans to list part of its European unit in Singapore next week to raise up to Won700bn [...]

Industrial transport China shipbuilder to issue 1.75bn shares Listing underlines IPO market strength Shipbuilder China Rongsheng Heavy Industries is planning a public offering in Hong Kong this month that could [...]

oil & gas Petronas, the Malaysian state-owned oil and gas group, is on course to raise as much as $4.8bn from an initial public offering of shares in its newly [...]

Travel & Leisure Chief to stay as 'long as I can deliver' CVC has 'no plans' to sell $7bn sport Bernie Ecclestone, Formula One motor racing's chief executive, has now [...]

Electricity Enel, the Italian energy group, has raised about [euro]2.6bn ($3.6bn) in an initial public offering of its renewables business, less than its target. Enel has priced shares in Enel [...]

life assurance $17.8bn raised in city's biggest IPO Boost for AIG plan to repay crisis funds Shares of AIA jumped 17 per cent on their debut in Hong Kong after [...]

UK offering could be biggest since crisis Up to 20% of business to be listed in 2011 Santander, Spain's largest bank, is pressing ahead with plans to list part of [...]

general financial Silicon Valley's venture capital industry is coming to rely on Asia for the initial public offerings that have historically brought its biggest paydays, to judge by deals from [...]

AZ Electronic aims for an extra $300m Signs of improved investor appetite The owners of AZ Electronic Materials have sharply increased the sum they plan to raise from a London [...]

The prospectus for Coal India makes no mention of the 'Delhi discount'. Yet it is one of the enduring features of the Indian stock market: the heavier the hand of [...]

Tudou, one of China's leading video websites, is preparing an initial public offering with hopes of raising at least $100m, amid fierce competition in the sector. The company said it [...]

Coal India's $3.5bn initial public offering will be the country's biggest after the Indian government decided to list the state-run company at Rs245 per share. The decision to price the [...]

Media Tudou, one of China's leading video websites, is preparing an initial public offering with hopes of raising at least $100m, amid fierce competition in the sector. The company said [...]

general financial Hong Kong IPO to net $20.5bn pay-out Fed loan could be settled in full An eclectic group of Middle Eastern and Asian sovereign funds and Hong Kong tycoons [...]

IPO will enable AIG to repay Fed loan An eclectic group of Middle Eastern and Asian sovereign funds and Hong Kong tycoons and retail investors will help the US government [...]

Investors drawn by lower-risk profile Offer price raises more than [pounds sterling]200m Shares in Betfair rose 19 per cent in their first day of conditional trading as investors put their [...]

ASIA-PACIFIC Asian equities slipped to their first weekly losses in two months as softer global commodity prices weighed on resource stocks but AIA 's flotation revealed strong demand for Hong [...]