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An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors [1] and usually also to retail (individual) investors. [2] An IPO is typically underwritten by one or more investment banks, who also arrange for the shares to be listed on one or more stock exchanges.
The 2008 financial crisis, also known as the global financial crisis, was a major worldwide economic crisis, centered in the United States, which triggered the Great Recession of late 2007 to mid-2009, the most severe downturn since the Wall Street crash of 1929 and Great Depression.
In recent decades there has been considerable progress in historical economics and the history of technology, and numerous investigations of the relationship between technological innovation and economic cycles. Some of the works involving long cycle research and technology include Mensch (1979), Tylecote (1991), the International Institute for ...
Sunday marks the five-year anniversary of when the stock market bottomed out after the financial crisis. The S&P 500 has nearly tripled since March 9, 2009, and the Dow has moved from 6,547 back ...
The IPO market finally loosened up in late 2023 after one of the worst periods for debuts in more than a decade. Rapidly rising interest rates – courtesy of an aggressive Federal Reserve ...
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If the IPOs go well, he said, it could create a "virtuous cycle" that attracts other companies still waiting on the sidelines. ... But the US economy, he said, "has been a lot more resilient over ...
These hot IPO markets misallocate investment funds to areas dictated by speculative trends, rather than to enterprises generating longstanding economic value. Typically when there is an over abundance of IPOs in a bubble market, a large portion of the IPO companies fail completely, never achieve what is promised to the investors, or can even be ...