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Finance

Too Big to Fix: IPO Revival Unlikely to Reverse Three-Decade Slide in Stock Exchange Listings

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In the late 1990s, there were roughly 8,000 US companies traded on stock exchanges. Today, estimates say it’s about half of that.

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Finance

Investors Have a Question About SEC’s Policy Shift on Arbitration: Cui Bono?

Class-action securities settlements in 88 cases totaled about $3.7 billion in 2024, according to data collected by Cornerstone Research.

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Finance

Halt and Catch Fire: IPO Market Accelerates After Sleepy Summer

Investor appetite for StubHub and Klarna is especially compelling at a time when consumer sentiment starting to slump.

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Private Equity

Carlyle, Goldman Spot Dollar Signs in Private Equity’s Liquidity Logjam

Last year marked the first time since Bain & Co started tracking data in 2005 that the private equity industry shrunk.

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Finance

Dwindling IPOs Reward Investors With Return Bonanza

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New data compiled by Bloomberg found that shares in companies to debut on US exchanges this year have climbed by a weighted average of 53%.

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Technology

CoreWeave’s First Day of Trading Highlights Fizzling AI Enthusiasm

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Markets were left with no gains, no losses and a lot of questions about where the artificial intelligence boom is headed.

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Technology

Smaller CoreWeave Valuation Signals Slower Start for AI-Focused IPOs

Hype climbed for AI cloud services provider CoreWeave’s IPO after it signed a $11.9 billion deal with OpenAI earlier this month.

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Private Equity

Will Private Equity Fuel a Big Year for IPOs?

As the New Year rolls in, Wall Street is preparing for a slew of listing announcements from private equity-backed firms.

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Social Media

2024: The Year Reddit Grew Up

Reddit went public this year and is inching towards profitability, a mere 19 years after it was founded, and the future looks bright.

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Economics

Wall Street’s New Year’s Resolution: Launch More IPOs

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No matter how you cast your ballot in the presidential election last month, recent history suggests your vote counts for IPOs.

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