The carmaker plans to do this by offering company stock in exchange for twenty-seven billion dollars in G.M.bonds.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

And it was private. It was not a public company with shares traded on the stock market.

VOA: special.2010.11.28

And it will buy an additional one hundred billion dollars of stock in each company.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

"Although it is quoted on the London Stock Exchange and is generally perceived to be a British company, BP is definitely much more an international company of huge importance to the American economy and the American employees."

VOA: standard.2010.06.18