- Record Russian IPO Gets London Listing
Sistema, a Russian conglomerate controlled by billionaire Vladimir Yevtushenkov, raised $1.35 billion last month in the form of global depositary receipts that are traded on the London Stock Exchange. The sale, which was handled by Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse First Boston, was the largest-ever initial public offering in Russia....
- ENTERRA ENERGY TRADES LOWER ON PROPOSAL TO CONVERT TO ENERGY TRUST
Calgary-based Enterra Energy Corp. (Nasdaq: EENC; Toronto: ENT) traded lower last week on news that it was proposing to reorganize as an energy trust. The proposed reorganization would result in shareholders receiving two trust units for each common share. In conjunction, a separate development company, currently called Devco, would be ......
- Televisa 101.
Grupo Televisa started trading on the Mexican Stock Exchange in 1991 and on the New York Stock Exchange in 1993. Televisa was founded as a radio station in 1930 by Emilio Azcarraga Vidaurreta with the assistance of NBC. It created Mexico's first TV station in 1952. At the corporate level, ......
- Wall Street Singes the Dragon.
Petro China's Failed IPO WHEN THE GOVERNMENT OF CHINA put shares in its China National Petroleum Company (CNPC) for sale on the New York and Hong Kong stock exchanges, it hoped to lead a new wave of successful offerings by its state-owned companies on international stock markets. The government's optimism ......
- Executive summary
TECHNOLOGY Irvine-based Autobytel Inc. bought Columbus, Ohio-based Applied Virtual Vision Inc. for about $9 million in cash and stock ... Irvine-based Broadcom Corp. created a new board seat and named Robert E. Switz, chief financial officer of Eden Prairie, Minn.-based ADC Telecommunications Inc., to fill it. Broadcom now has six ......
- Jupiter Shares Jump 69% As IPO Raises $65.6 Million
Shares of Jupiter Communications jumped 69% in their first day of trading on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange after an initial public offering that raised $65.6 million for the New York-based new-media research company. The company sold 3.125 million shares at an offering price of $21. Trading opened Friday at $33 ......
- Tough times for new issues
HEADNOTE EMERGING MARKETS As Internet stock markets around the world have suffered over the past couple of months because of NASDAQ's woes, it comes as little surprise that the few initial public offerings that have been launched in the emerging markets in that time have had quite a rough ride....