The shares can convert into listed ordinary shares, implicitly confirming long-held rumours that Volvo wants to seek a listing after more than a decade of ownership under first Ford Motor and now Zhejiang Geely of China.
Rumours of the next administration's intention to reduce the US military presence in Asia are shaping that perception, too, to China's advantage.
The rumours also suggest that the iPad will have smaller buttons on the top and side, as well as being the same thickness as the iPad Air 2 rather than the size of the iPad Pro.
Twitter, which has been the subject of takeover rumours before, is getting closer to a sale, according to the US business news channel CNBC.
But, Taylor had earlier denied the rumours by saying they were just co-stars.
His surrogates have been peddling rumours that Mrs Clinton is suffering from Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's or worse.
The 90-year-old monarch scotched rumours of a rift with the Duchess of Cambridge's parents as she drove them about at the weekend.
In the meantime, there's been a steady string of rumours about who could replace Craig as Bond, with a new hopeful claimed as the frontrunner almost every other week (we're getting pretty fed up of writing the weekly news articles, truth to be told).
There were no rumours of an attack from overseas, although the people admit that while the wall was under construction, they had grown nervous.
While all this was being done Caspian missed no chance of questioning all the oldest sea captains whom he could find in Narrowhaven to learn if they had any knowledge or even any rumours of land further to the east.
Rumours have also swirled in recent months that Chinese buyers are also targeting AC Milan, the city's other elite football team.
"They do things that normal people would never do even under pressure," he says, such as spreading rumours, breaking objects or lying.
Rumours create a lot of pressure.
US chipmaker Micron said it doesn't comment on rumours or speculation but confirmed is has not received an offer from Tsinghua Unigroup.
Rumours that The Sun's topless mascot and author of "news in briefs" was to be retired after her 45-year tenure at the tabloid paper proved unfounded.
Chinese Whispers (UK) This expression is often used as a metaphor for mistakes and inaccurate information which comes from rumours of gossip.
She added: 'We don't have the concrete evidence but I have discovered there were a lot of rumours about at the time and it is a convincing argument.
" 'It is also easy to see where the rumours of the iPad Pro came in.
There were rumours the true identity of the baby was another Jessica Smith - the 27-year-old star of American teen soap Laguna Beach.
American academic John Rewald had talked of hearing local rumours about such a theory in the 1930s.
