Facebook IPO could value it among the world's top companies
Here are the nation's top IPOs, one of which belongs to a Motor City company. UPS is the largest package-delivery company and the second-largest cargo carrier after FedEx. The company raised $5.47 billion in its IPO on Nov. 9, 1999.
By Lynn Cowan Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES Unprofitable biopharmaceutical firm Verastem Inc. (VSTM) rose nearly 11% Friday after boosting the size of its initial public offering. The company's stock closed at $11.09 a share on the Nasdaq, up 10.9% from its
The filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission could come as early as Wednesday, with an initial public offering of stock in three or four months. The targeted amount would slot it among the world's 25 largest IPOs, although as recently as
The Wall Street Journal's golden box of anonymous sources has rattled once more, this time with news that Facebook is finally going public. Now that's cooler than a million dollars.
By Lynn Cowan Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES This month is shaping up to be the slowest January for US IPOs since 2009, with the possibility of only three deals trading, but things should pick up in February. Telecom services provider IntelePeer Inc. postponed
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