There may be pressure building. But with investors spooked, chances are the IPO market will remain as dead as Kevin Federlines singing career.
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by J. Christoph Amberger
Baltimore — (TFN): If there’s one sector that’s been battered, beaten, and pulped this year, it’s been the IPO market. In fact, things are so bad that—despite of the successful VISA IPO—in all of Q2, there were no venture-backed offerings at all. With very good reason: Risk.
You see, IPOs thrive in bull [...]
“With the IPO market in Asia just as lackluster as it’s been in the U.S. this year, investors were as pleased as punch that any company as healthy and growth-oriented as Little Sheep was going public. It was a small IPO, but it was enough to get the fellas in Hong Kong excited.” — Stephanie [...]
“Little Sheep Hot Pot will begin trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange this Thursday to the glee of investors. The company has built an empire of 330 restaurants in China, the U.S. and Japan in less than 10 years, and it’s still predicting record profits for 2008.”– Stephanie Grimmett
by Stephanie Grimmett
Baltimore — (TFN): Supreme [...]
“Most of Wall Street’s moneymaking machines have shut down. Mortgage-securitization activity has gone kaput, while IPO and M&A activities are sputtering. Even worse, Billions of dollars of future writedowns and losses are still buried inside Wall Street’s balance sheets.” — Dan Amoss
by Dan Amoss
Baltimore – (TFN): Since [...]
by J. Christoph Amberger
Baltimore — (TFN): I just received a mass emailing by an old associate in the financial publishing business. It contained tantalizing glimpses of a new product the team back home at the ranch is working on. Also included was the promise of a brand-spanking new trading information service, run by a mysterious [...]
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"While it is certainly not a company with high moral or ethical values, it offers investors a shot at some pretty hefty profits. " – Andrew Snyder
By Andrew Snyder
Baltimore (TFN) — This market is a stock trader’s dream come true. One day the market is up 200 points, the next day it gives back its gains [...]
"Do not forget, Visa recently announced it lost $861 million last year, on revenues of over $5.2 billion. Numbers like that do not deserve the $38 billion market cap Visa is expecting. Stay away from this one, at least until it sheds its early overvalued price." — Andrew Snyder
by Andrew Snyder
Baltimore — (TFN): Don’t be [...]
Baltimore — (TFN): When Visa offers its stock to investors in just a few weeks, it is expected to draw a record-breaking offering. Thanks to Mastercard’s recent IPO victory, Visa plans to piggyback on the success. Unfortunately, the market is dramatically different now. Visa’s share price will plunge shortly after its offering. If you want [...]
"If you missed out on Mastercard last time, Visa could be your next chance at being a millionaire… even a billionaire." — Ann Sosnowski
by Ann Sosnowski
Baltimore — (TFN): In the biggest IPO offering since 2004, MasterCard Inc. (MA:NYSE) raised $2.4 billion in 2006. Investors who hopped onto that IPO could have ended up with 463% [...]
"With Fox airing a game show involving a lie detector and a bunch of very personal questions and ABC offering up a series called simply Dirty Sexy Money, maybe its time to gamble on middling-brow programming" — Stephanie Grimmett
by Stephanie Grimmett
Baltimore – (TFN) I miss the days when the Discovery Channel [...]
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by Stephanie Grimmett, TFN Baltimore — (TFN): China Mobile (CHL: NYSE) is as ubiquitous in its homeland as Verizon is in the United States. And the company has popped up everywhere in the last few weeks. As you may recall, Taipan recommended China Mobile, the largest Chinese cellphone company, in the June [...]
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“Visa could very well be the most sought after and most powerful IPO stock the world has ever seen.” — Ann Sosnowski
by Ann Sosnowski, TFN
Baltimore — (TFN): The IPO market has been on a tear this year. And just recently a new kid has announced intentions to move onto the IPO block, forecasting even [...]
“In 2007, Chinese companies have represented 12% of all US IPOs, eclipsing all other foreign companies’ US IPOs combined.”
Today’sFinancialNews.com
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Baltimore — (TFN): According to a report by US-based Renaissance Capital, the number of Chinese IPOs on the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ is growing at a record pace.
In 2007, [...]
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