Bid & Ask: The Deals of the Week

Noteworthy expenditures of the week

1. Spain’s national lottery operator, Sociedad Estatal Loterías y Apuestas del Estado, may raise as much as $10 billion in an IPO, valuing the company at about $30 billion.

2. Microblogging site Twitter is in talks with investors over hundreds of millions of dollars in financing that would value the startup at about $7 billion, almost double its worth when it got $200 million in financing in December.