Some of the most outrageous initial public offerings from around the world are actually underwritten by an obscure brokerage based in Red Bank, New Jersey, according to an article in…
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How Long Will The IPO Ride Last?
The IPO market has raised nearly $300 billion with more than 900 companies going public this year, after the list of public companies in the U.S. shrank for two decades,…
IPO Market Accepting Money-Losing Firms
“Stock investors are welcoming money-losing companies into public markets this year with open arms,” according to an article in The Wall Street Journal. Citing data compiled by University of Florida…
Startup Companies in U.S. Have Less Need to List
A recent article in The Economist discusses what has become a long-term decline in the number of publicly-listed firms in America. The article explains that while regulatory headaches and red…
Are U.S. Capital Markets as Healthy as They Look?
A recent article in U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation discusses the capital market conditions behind the now nine-year-old U.S. bull market, including the shrinkage in the number of publicly-listed firms…
Sexy Companies Don't Necessarily Make Good Investments
Snap Inc. (the maker of the popular social app, SnapChat) has been getting a lot of attention of late, according to a recent article in the Financial Times, and not…
Do IPOs Signal Trouble? Hardly, Says Fisher
Some have been wondering whether the amount of initial public offerings recently is a sign of euphoric sentiment in the market. But Kenneth Fisher says it’s not the number of…