Boston Capital hopes to raise $1b in IPO
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Boston Capital Real Estate Investment Trust Inc., an owner of apartment complexes in Florida, Oregon, Washington, and Utah, boosted the size of its initial public offering to as high as $1 billion. The Boston-based company plans to sell as many as 100 million shares for $10 each, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In November, Boston ...
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The anticipated merger of Guidant Corp. and Johnson &amp; Johnson could give an unintended boost to Boston Scientific Corp. if Guidant's drug-coated stent launch is delayed, said analysts looking at the implications of a potential deal.
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Hong Kongâs Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. (Hong Kong: 0013 - message board) could raise up to $1.5 billion from an IPO of mobile and fixed-line assets in India, Hong Kong, Israel, and other markets before the end
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Fidelity Investments, one of the last prominent downtown Boston-based companies, is negotiating to buy the former FleetBoston Financial Corp. headquarters building at 100 Federal St. for at least $500 million, according to real estate executives briefed about the deal.
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The initial public offering by Blackstone Group today could reshape the booming buyout industry, spurring other firms to register for IPOs while provoking a backlash that might boost the taxes of wealthy managers of "private equity" funds that buy or invest in companies.
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Sirtris Pharmaceuticals Inc. , a young Cambridge biotechnology company trying to parlay life-extension research into drugs for diabetes and other metabolic problems, said yesterday it hopes to raise up to $60 million in an initial public offering.
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GreatPoint Energy Inc., a Cambridge-based start-up that has developed technology for converting coal to natural gas, yesterday said it had raised $100 million - one of the largest venture-capital rounds ever in the clean-energy field - to fund construction of a demonstration plant.
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Shares of Google Inc. will make their Nasdaq stock market debut on Thursday, with some market participants expecting a steady start or slight rise after the company&#39;s initial public offering priced far below original estimates.
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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 since 2002.
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With $3.9 million in new capital, First National Bank of Ipswich is pushing farther into New Hampshire and may add an investment arm to the $330 million-asset community bank. And with a new ticker symbol of FIWC, First National is now publicly traded on the Over the Counter Bulletin Board.
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NEW YORK, May 21-- Blackstone Group, the second-largest U.S. private equity firm, said Monday that it planned to raise $3.87 billion to $4.13 billion in an initial public offering this year.
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Helicos BioSciences Corp. of Cambridge, a 71-person firm trying to develop a faster way to analyze genes, is planning to go public in a $100 million stock offering.
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SYDNEY (Dow Jones)--Babcock &amp; Brown Ltd. (BNB.AU) said Monday it plans to raise as much as A$1 billion for an externally managed investment company to target long-term investments.
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Blackstone Group's  initial public offering is seeing heavy demand from investors vying for shares of the biggest U.S. IPO in five years, which is expected to price on Thursday.
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Credit Suisse First Boston raised estimates on Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) and raised the target price. CSFB said the company&#39;s latest fiscal fourth-quarter results were the strongest since
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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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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- Credit Suisse First Boston analysts overnight set a 12-month, $145 per share price target for Google (GOOG) , telling clients it expects the Internet search engine to grow revenue by around 50 percent a year over the next five years.