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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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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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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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 shares endured a highly volatile morning session on Tuesday that saw the FTSE 100 nearly fall 200 points at the open before briefly trading higher.
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London equities rose in opening trade on Tuesday, with mining stocks boosted by record prices for gold and platinum.
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LONDON/NEW YORK  - Nasdaq  launched its 2.7 billion pound ($5.3 billion) hostile bid for the London Stock Exchange  on Tuesday, needing just over a fifth of LSE shareholders to accept for it to take control of the bourse.
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Wilson Bowden shares surge to a record high after the UK builder says that a number of companies are interested in buying it.
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Britain's FTSE 100 index (.FTSE) rose  0.3 percent in early trading on Wednesday as European and Asian  bourses swept to multi-year highs and as ICI  leapt more  than 9 percent on a sale of one of its units.
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Europe&#39;s main equity markets rose in initial trading on Thursday, with London&#39;s FTSE 100 index of leading shares gaining 0.35 percent to 6,590.20 points
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London investors were hoping that buoyant British economic growth would filter through to the capital's stock market next week, when a number of leading companies publish their annual results, analysts said.
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Even as Britain's property market shows signs of struggling, one north London street is defying the gloom-mongers: houses on "billionaire's avenue" are still selling for record prices.
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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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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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London equities moved higher in morning trade on Tuesday after an extended bank holiday weekend. Banks were in focus on further bid news while Vodafone cheered investors with strong annual results.
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London's FTSE 100 index breaks through the 5,000-points barrier for the first time in more than two-and-a-half years.
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Shares in the LSE jumped nearly 26 per cent to a new record at 540 pence after Deutsche Boerse made a Â£1.3-billion approach, which was rejected by Europe&#39;s biggest equity market.