CANTON, Massachusetts — The parent company of Dunkin’ Donuts and Baskin-Robbins says it plans to go public, confirming weeks of Wall Street speculation. Dunkin’ Brands Group Inc. didn’t say how many shares it will offer or when the offering will ...

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NEW YORK — Shares of Zipcar Inc. are soaring in their market debut after the initial public offering priced better than the company had predicted. Zipcar shares had priced for $18 a share, above the $14 to $16 projection. That ...

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NEW YORK— Zipcar Inc., the car-sharing company that rents rides for as little as an hour, is expected to get a warm reception from Wall Street for its planned initial public offering this week. Its supporters think skyrocketing gas prices ...

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NEW YORK — Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has prohibited U.S. investors from participating in a private offering expected to raise up to $1.5 billion for social networking site Facebook, citing widespread media coverage that could run afoul of securities guidelines. ...

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BETHESDA — American Capital Agency Corp. said it had priced its public offering of 23.4 million shares at $28 per share, and expects it to generate net proceeds of approximately $625 million after expenses. The offered price announced late Thursday ...

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Under Armour defeated Nike in the BCS title game Monday night. That’s one storyline playing out since Auburn University vanquished the University of Oregon, 22-19, for the NCAA college football championship. To locals, the backstory is pretty well known, but ...

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Chesapeake Lodging Trust, a publicly traded real estate investment trust based in Annapolis, spent 2010 raising money — and then spending it. After raising $148.7 million in an initial public offering at the beginning of the year, the firm made ...

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NEW YORK — A reported investment by Goldman Sachs and a Russian investor of $500 million in Facebook is a further sign that the social networking behemoth is becoming a powerful force even outside of tech circles, even as the ...

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Investors are showing little interest in commercial real estate financier Walker & Dunlop Inc. after the company’s initial public offering debuted at a lower-than-expected price. The offer of 10 million shares was priced at $10 per share, undercutting the company’s ...

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WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department says it has received another $1.8 billion in net proceeds from the sale of additional stock in General Motors. Treasury said the revenue received Thursday brought the total amount the government has earned from an ...

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