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...exposure to what's happen-ing in China," says James Alexander, Atlantis' head of marketing. While the big jump in prices has made some investors wary, he says "there's still plenty of demand." That may be the understatement of the year. Chinese stocks, particularly initial public offerings (IPOs), are the hottest investment of the moment. The index for "H shares," as the Hong Kong-listed stocks of mainland Chinese firms are called, spiked 152% in 2003. After three years of indifference to stocks during a bad bear market, many ordinary Hong Kongers are now giddy over just about...
...awaiting her big payoff. Shares of vegetable grower China Green Holdings began trading for the first time on Jan. 13, and Wong, a 50-year-old garment importer-exporter, was one of the lucky few who had obtained shares of the hot China stock at its initial public offering (IPO) price of 16?. That was no easy task, since retail investors ordered 1,604 times more shares than China Green had undertaken to sell, making it the most popular IPO in Hong Kong history. On the opening day of trading, Wong and about a dozen other investors gathered...
...With so many more Chinese companies poised to sell stock in Hong Kong, investors will have plenty of new opportunities to play IPO roulette. One risk, though, is that this additional supply could put a damper on share prices. Liu of Atlantis warns that investors should stick to IPOs of big, stable companies that have solid earnings growth. "You have to be sure you know about the company and have done your homework," she says. Otherwise, you're likely to end up with a painful case of dotcom d?j?...
...IPO Makes A Comeback Remember IPOs? Those tantalizing initial public offerings that during the tech bubble of the late 1990s promised enormous wealth in a single day's trading? After the frenzy of initial market listings peaked in 2000, IPO madness in Europe abated before almost disappearing completely in 2003. But talk to any banker now and you'll hear that 2004 is the year of the IPO comeback. European IPOs fetched a meager €5.6 billion in 2003, well below the height of 398 billion in 2000, according to Dealogic, which tracks transactions. Bankers say European IPOs this year...
...GOOGLE GUYS Young, nerdy, ready to IPO: Larry Page, Eric Schmidt and Sergey Brin made it seem not so much like 2003 but 1999. Page and Brin created the Google.com search engine in '98 and quietly built it into the Web's largest. Now they and CEO Schmidt are planning an IPO that could raise $2 billion. Competitors are swirling below, but who else has invented a new verb? If you need info on a new bar, new film, new fling, whatever--you Google...