The initial public offering of General Motors Co and the sales of four equity-backed companies can pump in some oxygen in the deflated lungs of the US since the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. It is the biggest week for the American IPO's after the collapse.

According to the data compiled by Bloomberg, there are ten companies that plan to collect a sum of twelve decimal five billion dollars in this week. This the biggest amount since Visa Inc, the California based company gave a sale of nineteen decimal seven billion dollars in the month of March of 2008.

Sixty one percent of General Motors is owned by the US Treasury. It might be selling shares worth ten decimal six billion dollars on 17, November for repayment of its bail out.

Among the buy out firms that are taking companies public in offering there are Golden Gate Capital and Carlyle Group that may raise a sum of one decimal five billion dollars according to the prospectuses of those deals.

Data compiled by Bloomberg further shown that the Us taxpayers will loose thirty four percent with Treasury selling GM shares at a maximum price of twenty nine dollars per share bur Golden Gate and Carlyle can double the return on the money they would invest in Aeroflex Holding Corp. and Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.

The sales is getting squared up following the Standard & Poor's 500 index , the measure stick for American equity went up to reach its two-year high in this month.

Lawrence Creatura, a fund manager at Federal Investors Inc. that oversees funds worth three hundred and forty billion dollars stated that the present week is big enough to describe the American IPO market explicitly. It is a good time for issuing equity.