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Bookmark Friday, Oct. 26. That’s when this week’s IPO calendar swings into action with two limited partnerships and a company with household-name products. The buzz is that investors are lining up to get in these deals.

 

The IPO market brought home a report card last week that was something to brag about. But this week, it’s so quiet that it looks like school is closed.

 

The Street is on track for its busiest IPO week in more than a year. This week’s calendar lists 11 deals looking to raise $3.5 billion. Two are blockbusters known as billion-dollar babies – each expects to raise $1 billion. Another deal is a cloud-based application provider that IPO experts think could soar into orbit.

 

October’s IPO calendar is building from last month’s traffic. September 2012 generated eight IPOs, according to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings. By Friday’s close, Sept. 28, the calendar already had 15 IPOs lined up for this month. It might be worth noting that the August, September and October 2011 new-issues calendars produced only seven offerings.

There are just a few names on this week’s IPO calendar, but there are magical words among them. One offering is a cloud computer company, another a high-yielding limited partnership in the energy sector and the other is a foreign bank whose American Depositary Shares (ADS) represent stock already traded on its own national stock exchange.