Sentence examples for considered floating from inspiring English sources

Until recently eBay had considered floating the unit in an offering.

In recent months, he considered floating Harrods stock in an initial public offering, according to both employees and investment bankers.

In those years, Shell considered floating factories for a field called Kudu, off Namibia in West Africa, and another called Nwa/Doro, off Nigeria.

The company was contacted by potential buyers after they learned it had briefly considered floating Edda, which reported revenues of £226m last year and could be worth about £375m.

The fungus has been described as an "aquatic puffball", although a later review considered "floating puffball" to be a more apt descriptor.

For the buy-out funds that are now considering floating, that parallel is not entirely comforting.

Instead, states are considering floating bonds, lots of them, to close gaps.

But if his expansion plans involved more capitalisation he would consider floating on the London Stock Exchange.

There will be pound signs in the eyes of many of Standard Life's policyholders this weekend following the revelation that the insurance giant is considering floating on the stock market, a move that would trigger windfalls to members.

Agricultural Bank of China, a giant fully state-owned lender, is considering floating a minority of its shares on the Shanghai and Hong Kong stockmarkets this year.China's banks have a lot on their plates right now, thanks to the lending surge of the past two years.

Britain's biggest mutual insurer has experienced a rollercoaster few weeks during which it emerged that it was in urgent talks with the City regulator over its financial position, that it is considering floating on the stock market and it has been lambasted by MPs over everything from its alleged lack of honesty to its former chief executive's pension.