Google will not comment on anything concerning its planned public offering, including its auction.
The planned offering could also have important ramifications for Equitable.
A planned public offering by Revlon is expected to be international, too.
Four years ago, his planned offering went down in flames on investor concern about a mountain of debt left from the junk-bond era.
The size of the planned offering had to be cut back, however, and the share price has declined since it was announced.
PayPal postponed a planned offering last week after it was sued for patent infringement.
As a result, a handful of mutual banks have canceled planned offerings; Flushing is the biggest to do so.
Tenneco is reducing the size of a planned offering of stock in its Case division.
As a result of the talks, Digicon, which provides seismic-data services to the petroleum industry, pushed back its planned offering of 3.7 million shares.
Google has repeatedly declined to comment publicly about any aspect of its planned offering.