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Toys R Us Inc is looking to raise around $800 million in an initial public offering in April, though a final decision has not been reached, the New York Post said on Saturday.

Hutchison Whampoa's ports unit is looking to raise as much as $5.8 billion in an initial public offering (IPO) in Singapore, allowing investors to tap into China's booming infrastructure business.

Global stock exchanges have apparently entered into a new round of consolidation that promises to radically alter trading activities for millions of investors.

Internet radio company Pandora Media Inc filed to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering of common stock, becoming the latest technology company to test the public markets. Pandora, which runs an online service that allows users to stream free music based on feedback from the listener, has 80 million registered users.

Pipeline company Kinder Morgan Inc sold more shares and priced them above the expected range, an underwriter said on Thursday, raising about $2.86 billion in the largest U.S. energy initial public offering since 1998.

Facebook is considering letting its employees sell up to $1 billion of their shares to institutional investors, at a price valuing the company at about $60 billion, an influential industry blog reported.

Tighter budgets at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission could mean killing vital technology upgrades needed to catch swindlers, the agency's chief said on Friday in a blunt appeal for more funding.

Microsoft Corp on Thursday launched a $2.25 billion sale of bonds in the software giant's third trip to the U.S. dollar investment-grade market.

Aluminum Corporation of China Ltd (Chalco), the country's largest producer of the light weight metal, said it plans to raise up to 9 billion yuan ($1.37 billion) from a private placement of new shares to be listed in Shanghai.

Investors are closely examining the financial details disclosed in LinkedIn Corp's IPO filing, trying to determine how much the company is worth.

LinkedIn Corp, a social networking Internet site, on Thursday filed documents with the U.S. regulators for an initial public offering.

The U.S. Treasury could sell all of its stock in General Motors Co. within the next year, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing an unidentified Treasury official.

China's largest e-commerce firm Alibaba Group has postponed indefinitely its listing plans for its subsidiaries, said a company source on Thursday.

Intel Corp boosted its share buyback plan by $10 billion, seeking to revitalize its flagging stock amid criticism it is getting left behind by rivals like Nvidia in a red-hot, fast-moving mobile market.

Chinese budget carrier Spring Airlines has resumed a long-delayed plan to sell shares publicly in Shanghai to fund expansion, the China Business News reported on Monday, citing unidentified company sources.

Daily deals website Groupon is considering an initial public offering and is in talks with bankers, founder and Chief Executive Andrew Mason told Reuters on Monday.

Some of the United States' top bankers descended on a law firm in midtown Manhattan on Thursday to make a pitch for managing what could be one of the largest share sales in history -- a secondary offering for bailed-out insurer American International Group Inc.

Indian budget carrier IndiGo is considering all options including an initial public offering to finance a $15.6 billion plane order with Airbus, but has made no decision yet, the firm's president said on Wednesday.