MMO2 is due to obtain a stock market listing on 19 November.
Twitter is believed to be considering an eventual stock market listing, although some investors will take some persuading in the wake of the poor response to Facebook's share debut last May.
The company's size, and the breadth of shareholder base - many of whom, no doubt, want to cash in some of their investment - meant that a stock market listing became inevitable.
Yes, Proview is pretty much bust, about to lose its stock market listing, the head honcho of Proview has already been declared personally bankrupt (he was personally guaranteeing loans to Proview which the company then defaulted on).
Not long after HMV's stock market listing, Beechwood, (the agency I founded and ran with my business partner, John Wood) was asked to re-pitch for the business as a new marketing director and managing director had come in to the company.
Without the option for a domestic stock-market listing to raise cash, Chinese companies especially smaller private-sector firms are stuck for funding.
Three other companies, all of which are listing on the Nasdaq Stock Market, appear to be in good shape, too, according to Mr. Sweet.
Some private equity firms have been able to exit some of their investments by listing them on the stock market amid a stronger IPO environment in the last few months.
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But minority shareholders in NEC Electronics did not seem to have anticipated this kind of activity, and they earned post-listing returns that were well below those of the aggregate stock market, and well below the returns earned by shareholders of the parent company.
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This new "China flu" has begun to infect the Hong Kong market, as well, just as its stock exchange is seeking to establish unprecedented "co-listing" arrangements with the U.S. NASDAQ exchange.
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They would rather see looser listing requirements at traditional stock exchanges (as is happening in Singapore), an Asia-wide second market linking many of the smaller exchanges, or even Nasdaq itself extended fully to Asia, with 24-hour trading and local listings.
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