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IPO (initial public offering)

Going public for a company means first of all to be able to raise fresh capital. But an initial public offering can end in disaster, too.

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Saudi Aramco

London tries to woo Saudi Aramco IPO

After Trump asked Saudi Arabia to list the oil giant Aramco in New York, Britain has raised the stakes for a London IPO.
BusinessNovember 10, 2017
Hong Kong Book Fair

China Literature in red-hot Hong Kong IPO

Hong Kong stocks have hit a 10-year high, powered by investor enthusiasm for tech companies.
BusinessNovember 8, 2017
Saudi Aramco employee

Aramco IPO or not?

China is offering to buy a stake in Saudi national oil conglomerate Aramco directly, Reuters has reported.
BusinessOctober 17, 2017
Polen, Kursverfall WIG20

Poland’s Play to float in Europe’s largest telecoms IPO

Poland's second-largest operator Play is mulling an initial public offering that could exceed 3.5 billion euros.
BusinessJuly 3, 2017
Delivery Hero Plattform Essensbestellungen

Germany's Delivery Hero plans flotation

The Berlin-headquartered start-up says its public listing will help it dominate the growing online food delivery market.
BusinessJune 6, 2017
Snap IPO

The ghost stirring up markets

Tech company Snap has gone public. Investor demand is huge.
BusinessMarch 2, 2017
Snap IPO

Investors make Snap debut a success

Snapchat owner Snap has seen its shares soar in a successful debut on the New York Stock Exchange.
BusinessMarch 2, 2017
Snapchat - Evan Spiegel

Is Snap spearheading a unicorn IPO craze?

Snapchat's parent has hit Wall Street. Other tech firms may follow suit. Here are the contenders.
BusinessMarch 2, 20176 images
Deutschland Immer mehr soziale Netzwerke

Snapchat to go public despite loses

The parent company of messaging app Snapchat has filed documents for a share offering, disclosing massive losses.
BusinessFebruary 3, 2017
Tourists in Beijing

Meitu marks muted IPO in Hong Kong

Chinese selfie apps developer Meitu has made its debut on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
BusinessDecember 15, 2016
Deutschland Innogy geht an die Börse

Wobbly IPO for German utility's green spinoff

Shares in RWE's green energy business have started trading in Germany's biggest public listing this year.
BusinessOctober 7, 2016
Deutschland Düsseldorf Uniper Firmenlogo

Uniper shares in market debut

The spun-off unit of Germany's Eon utility has completed a successful stock market debut, but is in for swings.
September 12, 2016
Handy Line App Sticker Emoticons

Chat app Line shares soar in IPO

Priced high to begin with, shares for the popular app Line shot up even further in value in its first day of trading.
July 14, 2016
Uber-Chef Travis Kalanick

Uber in the slow lane toward IPO

Uber’s chief executive Travis Kalanick has said his ride-hailing company will wait to go public for as long as possible.
June 8, 2016
Offshore Windpark Windenergie

Windfarm group seeks massive IPO

The Danish utility group Dong Energy has placed its value up to $16 billion ahead of a massive initial public offering.
May 26, 2016
Twitter Tweet "just setting up my twttr"

#Twitter10: counting down to the last tweet?

Ten years ago, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey posted the first tweet. It simply read: "just setting up my twttr."
March 21, 2016
Pumpstation Pump 3 in the Arabian desert near Khouris

Saudi Aramco IPO?

State-owned Saudi Aramco, the world's biggest oil company, is considering selling some shares to private investors.
January 8, 2016
Ferraris in front of Milan stock exchange

Ferrari shares in Milan

Ferrari's debut on the Milan stock exchange saw the stock drop slightly.
January 4, 2016
Niederlande Großbritannien ABN Amro zieht Empfehlung für Fusion mit Barclays zurück

ABN Amro stock market return

Seven years after nationalization, Dutch bank ABN Amro has made a successful comeback at the stock market.
November 20, 2015
Screenshot squareup.com

Why you should care about the Square IPO

Want to know why "everyone" is talking about a tech company called Square? Its IPO just rocketed in New York. Read on.
November 19, 2015
An IndiGo plane flies through the skies

IndiGo shares soar in market debut

India's leading airline is celebrating a 'blockbuster takeoff' as shares surged high above their listing price.
November 10, 2015
Japan Börsendebüt Japan Post in Tokio

Japan Post goes public

The sell-off of the massive formerly state-owned conglomerate fetched around 1.5 trillion yen, or $11.5 billion.
November 4, 2015
IndiGo plane

IndiGo launches IPO

India's budget carrier IndiGo has begun the country's biggest initial public offering since 2012.
October 27, 2015
USA Börsengang Ferrari

Ferrari IPO earnings

Fiat-Chrysler has said it earned close to a billion dollars from the IPO of its Ferrari racing car division.
October 26, 2015
A trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange is ready for Ferrari's IPO.

Ferrari IPO off to roaring start

Ferrari has roared onto the New York Stock Exchange. The RACE stock finished strong on its first day of trading.
October 21, 2015
A Ferrari on display at the 16th Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition.

Ferrari to make roaring Wall Street debut

The drool-inducing sports car maker is racing towards what could become one of the biggest IPOs of the year.
October 20, 2015
China Aktienmärkte Absturz

Tumbling stock market

DW examines the reasons behind the precipitous fall in Chinese stocks over the past weeks.
July 7, 2015
China Börse in Hangzhou

Chinese IPOs suspended to stop stock market slide

Efforts have been stepped up in China to stabilize the country's free-falling stock markets.
July 5, 2015
Fitbit fitness-tracking device

Fitbit IPO

Shares of Fitbit have surged more than 50 percent in the first day of trading at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
June 18, 2015
Rocket Internet CEO Oliver Samwer

Loss-making Rocket Internet

Berlin-based online platform Rocket Internet has said it incurred net losses last year, mainly due to IPO costs.
May 5, 2015
Nasdaq New York (Photo:Richard Drew/AP/dapd)

Etsy IPO

Online crafts marketplace Etsy makes its stock-market debut on Thursday.
April 16, 2015
Japanese postman riding a motorcycle in Tokyo

Japan Post eyes Australia's Toll

The acquisition could make Japan Post one of the world's largest logistics firms.
February 18, 2015
Großbritannien Flughafen Luton bei London

AENA shares jump in IPO

The world's biggest airport operator, Spain's AENA, has launched a successful stock market debut.
February 11, 2015
Briefkästen in Kyoto (Japan) SYMBOLBILD

Japan Post IPO

The Japanese government plans to sell a stake in Japan Post Holdings in a public offering next September, according to reports. An announcement is expected on Friday.
December 23, 2014
Skihelm-Kamera

GoPro shares gyrate

GoPro's shares have tumbled after a French journalist suggested one of the company's cameras may have caused Formula 1 legend Michael Schumacher's injuries. But that misses the big picture, says DW's Jasper Sky.
October 15, 2014
Zalando Pakete

No fears of e-commerce bubble

With the record IPO of China's online retailer Alibaba, e-commerce shares have become the latest stock market hype. Amid two new German listings, how justified are fears of the boom turning into a new dotcom bubble?
October 1, 2014
Zalando Börsengang Archivbild

Zalando IPO

Shares in German online retailer Zalando jumped significantly in their stock exchange debut, but the stock soon lost all gains towards the end of the trading day in Frankfurt on Wendesday.
October 1, 2014
EBay and PayPal logos

eBay to spin off PayPal

US online auction site eBay has announced plans to split off its PayPal payment business and float it as a publicly traded company. The move follows mounting pressure from investors who want to profit from the spinoff.
September 30, 2014
Alibaba China Konzern Gruppe Marketing

Alibaba's rivals start to gather

Alibaba's rivals in China are gathering momentum, writes DW columnist Frank Sieren.
September 30, 2014
Alibaba IPO

Alibaba's post-dream-start era

Chinese online giant Alibaba has gotten off to a sensational start on Wall Street. That's good for the stock exchange and global shares trading. But now, the retailer has to prove its mettle in its everyday operations.
September 22, 2014
Jack Ma

Alibaba surges on debut

As Wall Street celebrated Alibaba's trading debut, shares in the company soared.
September 19, 2014
Jack Ma at the New York Stock Exchange

Alibaba shares open in New York

Public trading of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has begun in New York. Shares in the company jumped by more than 40 percent from its initial public offering price.
September 19, 2014
Jack Ma Founder of Alibaba

Alibaba shares sell well

Shares in Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, are selling briskly as institutional investors get into position for Friday's initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange, expected to be the biggest IPO ever.
September 19, 2014
Deutschland Wirtschaft Symbolbild Online Einkaufen im Internet

Zalando begins share sale

As online fashion retailer Zalando has started selling shares to private investors, parent company Rocket Internet also goes public ''later in 2014''. The companies' young owners stand to become overnight billionaires.
September 18, 2014
Bayer's logo over the Leverkusen, Germany skyline

Bayer floats plastics unit

The maker of Aspirin has said it wants to hive off its Material Science division in a stock market flotation. The unit has bounced back sharply after major restructuring.
September 18, 2014
Alibaba Logo China

Alibaba hikes IPO price range

Chinese online retail giant Alibaba has increased the price range for its upcoming flotation on Wall Street. The revised price would value the Chinese market leader at roughly $25 billion, far more than Facebook in 2012.
September 16, 2014
Jack Ma Gründer von Alibaba

West can learn from Alibaba

Alibaba only the tip of the iceberg for e-commerce in China
September 11, 2014
Deutschland Holding Rocket Internet Logo

Rocket Internet IPO

Germany's Rocket Internet, an e-commerce venture capital group, plans to float on the stock exchange sometime this year. The long-awaited IPO would be Germany's second major e-commerce listing in 2014.
September 10, 2014
Alibaba Logo China

Secret to success

As Alibaba prepares for its IPO, Yan Anthea Zhang speaks to DW about what makes the firm successful.
September 9, 2014
Alibaba logo (Photo: dpa)

Alibaba goes Wall Street

Chinese online retailer Alibaba becomes a real giant by going public with great fanfare.
September 8, 2014