"offering date" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It usually refers to the date in which something is offered for sale or purchase, and can be used in any kind of written context. For example: "The offering date for this new product is next Tuesday."
He also has no gripes about having to wait a year from the offering date before insiders qualify for stock options.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has rules intended to prevent analysts from commenting on -- or touting -- stocks that they take public, for 25 days from the offering date.
Top executives at companies going public usually agree to abstain from selling their shares into the open market for a period of time after the offering date.
Last July, Yell canceled an initial offering a few days before the offering date, citing deterioration in the market for new stocks.
Yell tried going public once before, in July 2002, hoping to raise £750 million, but it changed its mind and pulled back a few days before the offering date, citing deterioration in the market for new stocks.
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In a similar offering dated August 2007, the prospectus noted that because of declining market values of loans, it was likely that the value of the portfolio "on the closing date will be substantially less than the principal amount" of the loans in the pool.
Most grim is the performance of buyout-backed IPOs from their offering dates to July 14, according to data from Thomson.
If you had bought every one of the 59 offerings during those years, you would have averaged a 30% annual return in the three years following the offering dates.
