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Shares in Royal Mail rise as high as 456p in conditional trading – up 38% on their initial 330p offer price – before easing back. More: continued here

Conditional trading in the Royal Mail has started with a bid of 450p – 36pc above to the 330p float price in one of the most popular share offers in UK history.         More: continued here

Royal Mail: Packaged for Success?BloombergOct. 11 (Bloomberg) –- Bloomberg's Caroline Hyde reports on Royal Mail's stocks being scaled down for institutional investors in favor of small investors. She speaks to Mark Barton and Anna Edwards on Bloomberg Television's “Countdown.” (Source: …and more » More: continued here

Royal Mail shares – what you need to know: Price revealed and investors get …This is MoneyRoyal Mail shares have rocketed on the first day of 'conditional dealing' the morning after the share offer price was revealed to be 330p, with all investors who applied for less than £10,000 of …

BBC News Royal Mail shares jump sharply on market debutBBC NewsRoyal Mail shares rose more than 38% to 456p at the start of conditional dealings on the London Stock Exchange. The hugely oversubscribed sale was priced at 330p per share at the top of its expected range and valuing the …

Royal Mail shares: lessons from 1980s flotationsThe GuardianRoyal Mail shares: lessons from 1980s flotations. Royal Mail shareholders may get a sense of what's to come by looking back at the flotations of BP, BT, British Airways and British Gas. Here's how they unfolded. Share · Tweet this. Email. Press …and …

BBC News Royal Mail shares set to begin tradingBBC NewsRoyal Mail shares, priced at 330p, are due to begin conditional trading, with investors keen to see if their value will rise. With demand for the shares far outstripping supply, members of the public have been limited to £750 worth – …

Why is the Royal Mail being privatised?The Economist (blog)ON October 11th the British government will sell around 60% of its stake in the Royal Mail, the state-owned postal service, via a flotation on the London Stock Exchange. Unlike other former state-owned businesses such as telecoms firms, energy … More: continued …

Royal Mail: your cheque is in the postThe GuardianOver long years, a self-hating public sector has applied tremendous institutional pressure on itself to do what it is finally doing on Friday, and flog off the Royal Mail. It is a generation since Whitehall in general, and the business department in …

Postmen who have been given free shares in Royal Mail while tens of thousand of people have missed out will "take the money and go on strike", a union leader said yesterday.         More: continued here