Welcome to Maxx Trading Guides
Initial Public Offering Listings Article
This is a selection made from among articles on Initial Public Offering Listings. For a permanent link to this article, or to bookmark it for future reading, click here.
Google's Initial Public Stock Offering
from: Maxx Trading Guides
William Gates III.
Warren Buffet.
Carlos Slim Helu.
Ingvar Kamprad.
Lakshmi Mittal.
They are just five among the 793 recorded billionaires around the world, and they have a combined net worth of around $2.6 trillion, which is 18 percent up compared to the combined net worth of 476 recorded billionaires around the world in 2005. Their average individual average net worth is around $3.3 billion.
The increasing number of billionaires is due to the excellent performance of different stock markets around the world. In fact, India's BSE SENSEX market was up by about 54 percent in the past 12 months, thus producing 10 more new billionaires for this 2006, more than any other country besides the United States.
Russia's RTS Stock Exchange also made an enormous performance, posing an impressive 108% increase in circulating capital. Such surge of wealth in the Russian stock market is due to the strong gains in commodities prices. The former member of the dissolved Soviet Union produced 33 billionaires, with 7 of them that are new in the list.
As mentioned earlier, the increasing number of billionaires every year (from 476 to 793) is attributed to the excellent performance of different exchanges around the world. Many market players are throwing their investments to the arena in the hope of huge profits at the end of each deal. Thus, the money is flowing around the market, and every investor has the opportunity to partake of the billions of dollars worth of circulating capital around the market.
Speaking of capital, every investor is very particular about the initial funds that they'll use for their investment venture. In finance, it generally refers to the financial wealth that is used in starting or maintaining a certain investment. In other words, capital is very important for every deal that you will make that needs finances.
If you want to form a company, definitely there's a need for you to raise a huge amount of capital in order to finance its daily operations. There are various ways you can raise capital, one of which is the initial public offering.
An initial public offering (IPO) is the first sale of a company's common share to interested public investors. It's an effective method in raising capital for a company, though there are legal compliances and reporting requirements that must be met. Take note that initial public offerings are only applicable to the first issuance of common shares to the public. Later issuance of such shares will now be referred to as secondary market offering and involves a different set of requirements that must be met.
There are various large corporations that make use of initial public offering method, and one of which is Google, one of the major search engines over the World Wide Web.
Google filed the initial public stock offering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in the hope of raising as much as $2.7 billion to be used in the expansion and development of their Internet-based services to the public. The conduct of their initial public stock offering involves an unusual format of an online auction to make their shares widely available to the public. Credit Suisse First Boston and Morgan Stanley were named as the lead underwriters for that particular initial public stock offering.
Aside from the raising of capital for the company, Google was hoping to increase the search business competition over the Internet once they filed their initial public stock offering. According to different online market analyst, the competition between Google and other major search engines such as Yahoo, MSN, and Amazon continues to intensify since they are determined to get their share within the search business.
Online Forex Trading Course
Professional trader and author Peter Bain's Video Forex Course demonstrates simple yet powerful pivot currency trading systems used by professional traders.
Initial Public Offering Listings News
New Star Dropped Off Recommended List at Hargreaves, Bestinvest - Bloomberg
 This is London | New Star Dropped Off Recommended List at Hargreaves, Bestinvest Bloomberg - New Star, founded by Chairman John Duffield in 2000, fell the most yesterday since its initial public offering three years ago after the UK Listing ... New Star Plunges, Regulator Denies Suspension Request (Update2) |
Media Advisory from GHL Acquisition Corp. and Iridium Satellite LLC - MarketWatch
Media Advisory from GHL Acquisition Corp. and Iridium Satellite LLC MarketWatch - GHL Acquisition Corp. is a special purpose acquisition company, launched in February 2008, in an initial public offering raising $400 million of gross ... |
Liquidnet to delay IPO until 2010 - Reuters
Liquidnet to delay IPO until 2010 Reuters - Liquidnet Holdings Inc had originally planned to conduct an initial public offering by the fourth quarter of this year and sell up to $500 million of its ... |
XenoPort Falls After Heartburn Drug Misses Chief Goal (Update2) - Bloomberg
XenoPort Falls After Heartburn Drug Misses Chief Goal (Update2) Bloomberg - Both declines are bigger than any before for XenoPort, which made its initial public offering in June 2005. The Santa Clara, California, company reported ... |
AmREIT to go private - Bizjournals.com
AmREIT to go private Bizjournals.com, NC - ... business strategy could include relisting on a major stock exchange, bringing in large institutional investors or launching an initial public offering. ... |