Stock Offerings

Las Vegas Sands Corp. said Monday that doubts about its ability to continue as a going concern were removed after the completion of an offering of common stock, preferred stock and warrants provided about $2.1 billion of additional capital. The Las Vegas-based casino operator's independent accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers, said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that the actions taken Friday helped to erase worries about the company's ability to continue to operate.

Shares of CB Richard Ellis Group Inc. jumped 43% on Thursday after the world's largest real estate broker raised about $180 million in a secondary stock sale.

SLM Corp., the government-backed student lender better known as Sallie Mae, said Wednesday that it would sell $2.5 billion of common and preferred stock.

New York buyout firm Apollo Management is proposing to raise as much as $1.1 billion in a private placement of stock. The plan, reported by the Financial Times on Tuesday, follows moves by several other large private equity firms, including Blackstone Group and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.

THE Julian Petroleum scandal stirs little recognition in Los Angeles today, but in the early years of the Great Depression, it was a matter of common knowledge, symbolizing not merely what President Franklin D.

Investors in DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. had reason to celebrate after the Glendale-based film studio announced better-than-expected second-quarter profit late Thursday.

Mossimo Inc., an apparel designer that licenses its brand to Target Corp., said Wednesday that its founder would resume a tender offer for its stock next week after a party interested in buying the company ended talks.

Northwest Airlines Corp. Chairman Gary Wilson sold $1.8 million worth of the company's shares four weeks before the No. 4 U.S. airline filed for bankruptcy protection, according to regulatory filings.