IPOs

The IPO for Global Defense Technology & Systems (Nasdaq: GTEC) is open for trading. Shares are trading at $13.01 after pricing 4.6 million shares at $13, below the expected $14-$16 range.

The offering is being made through Cowen and Company.

Global Defense Technology & Systems provides mission-critical technology-based systems, solutions, and services for national security agencies and programs of the U.S. government.

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The IPO for Archipelago Learning, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARCL) is open for trading. Shares are trading at $18.61 after pricing 6,250,000 shares at $16.50 per share, near the top end of the expected $15-$17 range.

Of the shares being sold, 3,125,000 are being offered by the Company and 3,125,000 shares are being offered by selling stockholders.

BofA Merrill Lynch and William Blair & Company acted as joint book-running managers for the offering. Robert W. Baird & Co., Piper Jaffray and Stifel Nicolaus acted as co-managers of the offering.

Archipelago Learning is a leading subscription-based online education company. Archipelago Learning provides standards-based instruction, practice, assessments and reporting tools that improve the performance of educators and students via proprietary web-based platforms.

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The IPO for 7 Days Group Holdings Limited (NYSE: SVN) is open for trading. Share are trading at $13.70 after pricing 10.1 million share IPO at $11, the top end of the $9-$11 range.

The offering is being made through JPMorgan, Citi and Oppenheimer & Co.

7 Days is a national economy hotel chain based in China. The company converts and operates limited service economy hotels across major metropolitan areas in China under it's award-winning "7 Days Inn" brand.

7 Days is the nations third larges economy hotel chain with 283 hotels and 28,266 rooms. It is the fastest growing top-ten national economy hotel chain. It has a pipeline of 77 hotels and 7,476 rooms under conversion.

As of June 30, 2009, the largest economy hotel operator in China had 547 hotels compared to the largest economy hotel operator in the United States which had over 5,070 economy hotels in its system.

The economy hotel chain sector of China’s lodging industry has been expanding rapidly as a result of a number of factors, including the growth of the Chinese economy and the growth of the travel industry in China, as well as increasing numbers of fast-growing small- to medium-sized enterprises, or SMEs, the growth of domestic tourism, increasing disposable income, Internet developments, the expansion of urban business centers and a growing recognition of the economy hotel accommodation options by customers.

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7 Days Group Holdings Limited (NYSE: SVN) IPO opens. Trading at $13.30 priced its 10.1 million share IPO at $11

The IPO for Cloud Peak Energy Inc. (NYSE: CLD) is open for trading. Shares are trading at $14.53. after pricing 30.6 million share IPO at $15, below the expected $16-$18 range.

The offering is being made through Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley and RBC Capital Markets.

Cloud Peak Energy is the third largest producer of coal in the U.S. and in the Powder River Basin, or PRB, based on 2008 coal production. Cloud Peak Energy is being spun out from Rio Tinto (NYSE: RTP).

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