Blackstone jumps over 20 percent in debut
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Units of giant private equity firm  Blackstone Group LP  surged more than 20 percent in their  stocks market debut Friday, a day after pricing at the top of  the initial public offering&#39;s forecast range.
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It's the first day of trading for Blackstone. Should you pile on?
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In the hours before the Hilton hotel chain announced Tuesday that it was selling itself to the Blackstone Group for $26 billion, the company's shares spiked significantly in trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
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The Blackstone Group had also bid for  U.S. apartment owner Archstone-Smith Trust  in the weeks  before Archstone agreed to acquired by affiliates of Lehman  Brothers Holdings Inc.  and Tishman Speyer for more than  $15 billion, The Wall Street Journal Online reported on  Thursday.
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The Blackstone Group  raised its bid for Equity Office Properties Trust  to $55.50 per share in cash on Tuesday after rival bidder Vornado Realty Trust  sweetened its offer in the latest step in a fight to control the top U.S. office landlord.
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Blackstone Group shares rose 13 percent in their stock market debut Friday, as investors scrambled for a piece of the sixth-richest initial public offering in U.S. history.
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Equity Office Properties Trust  said on Friday it still preferred a $54-per-share cash takeover offer from private equity firm Blackstone Group despite a higher cash-and-stock bid of $56 per share from Vornado Realty Trust .
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Citigroup Inc  and Merrill Lynch & Co Inc  said they raised another $20 billion of capital from investors in Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere, as the subprime mortgage crisis forced additional massive asset write-downs and devoured more of banks' capital.
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Equity Office Properties Trust   said on Tuesday that the Blackstone Group  raised the  price of its takeover bid to $55.50 per share, after rival  bidder Vornado Realty Trust  sweetened its own offer.
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On Sunday, Equity Office accepted a $36 billion offer from the Blackstone Group. It would be the costliest buyout in history.
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Blackstone Group issued compensation details for the first time on Monday, disclosing in a filing that its co-founders will receive at least $2.33 billion after part of the firm is taken public.
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Blackstone Group LP  units rose 15 percent in their first day of trading on Friday, as the first major U.S. private-equity firm went public and minted billions of dollars of new wealth for its founders.
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Blackstone Group LP  priced its  initial public offering at the top end of the range on  Thursday, even as lawmakers pushed for its delay, raising $4.13  billion in the largest U.S. IPO in five years.
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Equity Office Properties Trust  said on Tuesday that the Blackstone Group  raised the price of its takeover bid to $55.50 per share, after rival bidder Vornado Realty Trust  sweetened its own offer.
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World stock markets rose Wednesday and European indexes were buoyed after Hilton Hotels agreed to be bought by the equity firm the Blackstone Group.
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The Blackstone Group raised its offer to acquire Equity Office Properties to about $39 billion, E.O.P said shortly after 1 a.m.
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The Blackstone Group sold the majority of its property holdings in Germany to institutional investors for about 1.6 billion euros ($2.1 billion), the company said yesterday. Blackstone said it had sold a majority stake in its Vitus subsidiary to a consortium including Round Hill Capital and Morley Fund Management, the wealth-management unit of the British insurer Aviva. Blackstone bought Vitus, which has more than 31,000 apartments, from a German holding company, WCM, at the end of 2004.