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...essentially batteries made of flywheels rather than chemicals), the firm is beefing up production of some of its gadgets tenfold this year to quench demand. To pay for such expansion, Vycon's executives decided to sell shares to the public. Too tiny to trade on New York City's NASDAQ, the company focused instead on another market catering to ambitious upstarts like Vycon. London's Alternative Investment Market (AIM) was a "global market for small companies," says Vycon president and CEO Tony Aoun, which would "put the company in a good light." When the business listed on AIM in March...
...stock market: Why isn't that $5 billion company worth $10 billion already? Why does it take Blackstone's expensive intervention to get it there? More than $13 trillion is invested in publicly traded shares on the New York Stock Exchange. Another $3 trillion--plus is riding on the NASDAQ. Most of this isn't rich people's portfolios and trust funds; it's the savings and pension funds of middle-class Americans. Over the past couple of generations, they have been enticed into the stock market because it is supposed to be efficient and because everyone...
...bleak view. In 2001, 12 of the 20 biggest-dollar initial public offerings (IPOs) occurred in the U.S. In each of 2005 and 2006, only one did. IPOs totaled $55.2 billion in Britain last year and only $46.6 billion here. Since 2000, the number of foreign companies listed on NASDAQ fell...
...Having cemented its leadership in Europe, London today is quickly gaining ground on New York City. While the combined market capitalizations of U.S. companies listed on the n.y.s.e. and nasdaq dwarf the City's London Stock Exchange (lse), London has proved far better at attracting the new share listings that investment banks crave. In 2006, for example, 91 foreign companies chose to sell new shares on London's stock exchanges - more than four times the number of overseas listings in New York, according to consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers. London's smaller domestic business means that "if you're going to flourish...
...months to 2007 more than doubled to $253 million, and the volume and value of shares traded on the exchange's markets hit all-time highs last year. With its own share price more than tripling in the last three years to around $25.4, lse's board swatted away nasdaq's bid of $24.4 a share as "wholly inadequate." nasdaq which has already built up a 28.8% stake in lse, has until Feb. 10 to persuade the lse's shareholders otherwise...