World's biggest ever IPOs

General Motors Co have filed for an initial public offering of their stock on Wednesday.

The IPO could raise as much as $20 billion, people with knowledge of the preparations have said.

At that level GM could join the list of the biggest IPOs of all time, globally.

On the eve of their listing, a look at the world's biggest-ever IPOs.

Image: Opel workers take part in a warning strike in Ruesselsheim November 5, 2009. The board of General Motors Co has opted to keep Opel, undoing months of painstaking negotiations to sell the European unit to a Russian-backed group led by Canada's Magna.

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