IPOs at record 'as London grows'
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Stock market listings hit a record $227bn worldwide this year as London reinforces its global position, a report says.
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TORONTO (CP) - In one of the largest initial public stock offerings in Canada in the last few years, ING Canada Inc. is aiming to raise $907 million in its IPO after pricing the shares at $26 each.
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News of a co-ordinated effort by a wide-ranging consortium of the world's central banks to address the liquidity crisis on credit markets pushed London equities significantly higher on Wednesday.
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Blog: MySQL is relentlessly pushing its way toward an IPO, as BusinessWeek reports, which makes the entire open source ecosystem that much more valuable.
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London's FTSE 100 shot higher on Monday, with banks in focus amid the nationalisation of troubled lender Northern Rock.
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Google's 1.7 billion initial public offering in August gave entrepreneurs reason to rub the sleepy dust out of their eyes. All year the new-issues market had been slowly awakening. Through the end of October U.S. companies raised &#36;29 billion in initial stock sales, almost twice the total raised in all of 2003.
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Long-running takeover target the London  Stock Exchange Group on Thursday reported a strong rise in  full-year turnover and operating profit, topping analysts&#039;  expectations.
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London Stock Exchange Group Plc forecast  a big rise in third-quarter earnings and pledged to raise its  full-year dividend at least 50 percent as it reiterated its  opposition to a 2.7 billion pound ($5.3 billion) hostile bid  from U.S. rival Nasdaq .
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London equities made strong gains on Wednesday, with every FTSE 100 constituent  rallying, after strong overnight gains on Wall Street followed news of the Federal Reserve&#39;s 50 basis point cut in US rates.
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European stocks have nudged upwards in morning trading, with London's FTSE index of 100 leading shares climbing 0.10 percent to 6,128.30 points.
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European stock markets rose strongly with London trading at fresh two-year high points, as English football giant Manchester United said it had received a takeover approach.
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THE share market reached a record high today, despite a negative lead from the US where markets fell overnight. At 1030 AEST, the benchmark S&amp;P/ASX 200 index was trading at 3595.
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The London Stock Exchange  forecast a big rise in third-quarter earnings and pledged to raise its full-year dividend at least 50 percent on Tuesday as it reiterated its opposition to a 2.7-billion-pound ($5.3 billion) bid from U.S. rival Nasdaq .
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Google Inc.'s GOOG.O initial  public offering of 19.6 million shares priced at $85 each, the  low end of their projected range, a source familiar with the  auction said on Wednesday, raising $1.67 billion and making it  the fourth-largest U.S. IPO this year.
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Surging Chinese stock markets won the global IPO crown in the third quarter, hosting more share flotations and raising more capital than bourses in any other country, an Ernst & Young report showed on Tuesday.
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London's FTSE 100 shares index has hit 6,000 points as investors seized on strong gains by US and Japanese shares, falling oil prices and a buoyant mining sector.
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BusinessWeek Online - It sounds like a tale of woe for Europe's investment banks. One of the biggest takeover attempts in British retail history -- retail tycoon Philip Green's &#36;17 billion bid for iconic Marks &amp; Spencer Group PLC -- came to naught. A much-anticipated boom in initial public offerings has fizzled. And after a drought that started in 2001, merger-and-acquisition activity remains in a funk. But bankers in Europe's financial capital, the City of London, and its auxiliary, Canary Wharf, aren't crying in their pints. ...