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"We were surprised by the overwhelming response, " he said. "It's multiple times oversubscribed. "

Interest in the stock was so great that Mr. Leslau cut the investor road show short by a week, but the share sale was still oversubscribed.

The European Central Bank's auction of three-month loans on September 24th was more than three times oversubscribed.

Oversubscribed A situation where the overall investor demand for a new share issue exceeds the actual supply of shares available.

Nick Leslau started a real estate investment firm for commercial properties, and shares were quickly oversubscribed.

Too often, three or four buses at a time jockey for fares on haphazardly oversubscribed routes.

Issuers typically like to have oversubscribed offerings: it makes it more likely that bonds will rally once the deal closes.

This year's debut course was oversubscribed, so the bank plans another in 2008.

The seminar is always oversubscribed.

Shares in nine companies involved in a third round of subscriptions for the board were oversubscribed.

Two previous issues this year were heavily oversubscribed, even if the investors who were allocated bonds are now cursing their luck.

Yields on ten-year gilts have even fallen slightly since then, and all debt sales have been oversubscribed.

If the IPO is oversubscribed , the allotment is generally made by way of balloting based on the basis determined by the listed company .

Last week, an oversubscribed initial public offering raised more than $20bn for the phoenix-like comeback.

They are typically "no excuses" schools that emphasise discipline, long hours and short holidays. They are oversubscribed.

Ethics is not a required course at the school, but it is an oversubscribed elective.

Although the issue was unrated, it was heavily oversubscribed.

The fund was heavily oversubscribed and attracted money from several other tech luminaries.

The Italian company's advisers say the offer is five times oversubscribed, so the omens look encouraging.

The first tranches of bonds, offering 6. 85% and a sovereign guarantee, were oversubscribed.

Bank of China, which administered the offering, reported it was 10 times oversubscribed.

Several smaller IPOs in China this year have been heavily oversubscribed by investors whose appetite for gambling has suddenly returned.

European fund which invests in Cuba found its share placing last March 70% oversubscribed.

CSR also said yesterday it netted $956m by its massively oversubscribed Shanghai IPO.

The issue was 13 times oversubscribed and valued the company at $1. 5 billion.

It is now no longer open to new members because it risks being oversubscribed.

Wipro's transgression was to invite bank officials to take part in an oversubscribed share offering in 2000.

McDonald's three-year note was quickly oversubscribed and secured a 3 per cent coupon.

The share issue is oversubscribed, so there is a ballot for the share.

It was estimated the shares would be1, 500 times oversubscribed.

Shenhua Energy was about 30 times oversubscribed and soared by about 87 per cent on its opening trading day.

All issues of the Exchange Fund paper were oversubscribed, by an average of 2. 82 times.

The sale was oversubscribed but yields were high, at 4. 5% for the six-year paper and 5. 5% for the ten-year bond.

The emirate managed to raise $1. 25 billion in a two-part bond sale, which was heavily oversubscribed.

The offline sale of the shares, which were offered at 19 yuan to 21. 08 yuan, was 124 times oversubscribed.

The auction was 3. 64 times oversubscribed.

Its share price also soared, as it increased the size of the offering, which had been oversubscribed. See article

Though each yearmore students go to university (the admission rate is up 3% this year) spots at eliteinstitutions are oversubscribed.

The offering was oversubscribed by 126 times and the shares jumped 81 per cent on the first day of trading to Rmb22. 68.

Priced at 390, 000-670, 000 rupees each, they are already oversubscribed.

On Dec. 17, SharesPost completed an auction for 165, 000 Facebook shares, which the exchange said was heavily oversubscribed.

A recent sale in Hong Kong of 20 billion yuan of government debt was heavily oversubscribed.