Ipo
22 May 2012
Ahead of Facebook's $16bn IPO, Morgan Stanley, the lead underwriter on the deal, reduced its revenue forecasts for the social network, Reuters reports.
11 May 2012
The past 12 months has seen several big name initial public offerings come to market. Should investors hurry to participate? Charlotte Richards finds out.
04 May 2012
Facebook has set the price range for its shares in what will be Silicon Valley's largest IPO, giving the social network a market value close to that of Amazon.
01 May 2012
Peter McKellar, coordinating partner and CIO of SL Capital Partners and manager of the Standard Life European Private Equity trust, on the prospects for this unloved sector.
29 March 2012
Facebook will permanently stop trading of its stock on private secondary markets at the end of this week ahead of its initial public offering in May, the FT reports.
26 March 2012
Franklin Templeton’s emerging market heavyweight Mark Mobius has blamed the flood of initial public offerings (IPOs) in emerging markets during 2010 for EM stocks’ underperformance last year.
25 March 2012
Stefan Bottcher, lead portfolio adviser for the Charlemagne Magna New Frontiers fund, explains his overweight positions in two of the lesser-known emerging economies .
13 February 2012
The company that controls the Empire State Building has revealed plans to raise as much as $1bn in an initial public offering, and become a real estate investment trust.
10 February 2012
The upcoming flotation of the social networking site is gaining plenty of column inches but should you be backing its IPO? Here industry experts reveal whether it is really worth all the hype.
03 February 2012
Facebook's value rose to $123bn in grey trading yesterday as it prepares for a $5bn float later this year.
02 February 2012
Facebook’s long-anticipated initial public offering will see it look to raise $5bn in a listing expected to value the company at up to $100bn.
30 January 2012
BlueCrest Capital is to list a feeder fund for its BlueTrend strategy, a systematic fund that trades across 150 global markets, on the London Stock Exchange this March.
30 January 2012
Social networking giant Facebook is set to begin the process of becoming a publicly listed company this week, with reported valuations of between $75bn (£48bn) and $100bn dwarfing Google’s $1.9bn IPO in 2004.
10 January 2012
The markets are being driven by newsflow, which gives us an uncertain outlook and probably high volatility for a long while to come.
02 December 2011
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