{"id":9108,"date":"2012-03-20T03:20:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T01:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/mining-sector-could-fuel-2012-ipo-flurry\/"},"modified":"2012-03-20T03:20:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T01:20:32","slug":"mining-sector-could-fuel-2012-ipo-flurry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/mining-sector-could-fuel-2012-ipo-flurry\/","title":{"rendered":"Mining sector could fuel 2012 IPO flurry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* London IPO pipeline at strongest since global crisis &#8211; LSE<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* IPOs seen in 2012 include Ivanplats, Ferrous Resources,<br \/>\nGrupo Mexico unit &#8211; sources<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Clara Ferreira-Marques and Kylie MacLellan<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, March 19 (Reuters) &#8211; The mining sector could bring a<br \/>\nflurry of IPOs to London and elsewhere in the second half of<br \/>\n2012 after several lean years for investors and bankers, as<br \/>\nminers eye deals or seek to raise funds for increasingly costly<br \/>\nprojects.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The IPO waiting list is building for all sectors, banking<br \/>\nand industry sources say, and from large to small caps, after<br \/>\nmany were shelved in the turbulence of the last few years.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>London in particular has a pipeline that is at its strongest<br \/>\nsince the global crisis, according to the London Stock Exchange.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some of the more eye-catching listings may come from the<br \/>\nmining sector, with billionaire Robert Friedland set to lead the<br \/>\ncharge with Ivanplats, a listing that could raise as much as $1<br \/>\nbillion and value the mining and exploration company at around<br \/>\n$5 billion, according to sources familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It would be the first major test of market appetite for<br \/>\nmining stocks since trader Glencore listed last year.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There has been a famine and there is a glut of things to<br \/>\ncome,&#8221; said one of the sources involved in the listing.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* London IPO pipeline at strongest since global crisis &#8211; LSE * IPOs seen in 2012 include Ivanplats, Ferrous Resources, Grupo Mexico unit &#8211; sources By Clara Ferreira-Marques and Kylie MacLellan LONDON, March 19 (Reuters) &#8211; The mining sector could bring a flurry of IPOs to London and elsewhere in the second half of 2012 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-9108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}