NEW YORK (

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Prudential Financial

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raised $970 million in net proceeds from a common stock offering last week,

, according to a company press release.

Prudential held an offering of more than 18.3 million shares to cover expenses from its $4.2 billion acquisition of

American International Group's

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AIG Star Life and AIG Edison Life.

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