Sentence examples for initial offerings that from inspiring English sources

And he tends to prefer initial offerings that have local underwriting managers, rather than big global firms.

China Telecom is the latest of a string of initial offerings that began in 1997 with the cellular giant China Mobile.

REUTERS   Hot I.P.O.'s Fail to Lift Other Stocks  |  Despite a recent string of initial offerings that have gone on to post large gains, the broader stock market remains stuck in the doldrums, The Associated Press reports.

Matching the top 30 underwriters with initial offerings that have fallen below $1 or have been delisted, Thomson found the worst record at Thomas Weisel, which focused completely on technology companies and where a third of the companies taken public have gone sour.

But as Groucho Marx might have put it, they may want to be wary of any initial offering that would have them as a member.

The Blackstone Group, the biggest publicly traded American buyout firm, went public that June in a landmark initial offering that raised about $4.5 billion.

An initial offering that comes close to doubling their money would also help dispel criticism that buyout firms are nothing more than undertaxed financial engineers.

But Google still used a Dutch auction in its initial offering that allowed ordinary investors to claim a piece of the I.P.O.

[C11.] Cendant Said to Plan Spinoff Cendant is planning to announce that it will spin off its Wright Express unit in an initial offering that is expected to raise more than $1 billion, according to executives.

Ms. Brink faced criticism from investors last year, who accused World Online of failing to disclose in the prospectus for the initial offering that the chairwoman had sold shares.

[C4.] Handspring Shares Climb 35% Shares of Handspring rose 35percentt in their first day of trading after raising $200 million in an initial offering that showed investors' enthusiasm for companies that make increasingly popular hand-held computers.