The chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission has a plan to reverse the decline in public listings. His critics say he’s taking swings at the wrong target.
Category: Initial Public Offerings
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Los Angeles Times Moves Closer to a Public Stock Offering
The company, which says it plans an initial public offering next fall, announced on Thursday that it would seek to raise up to $500 million selling private shares to investors.
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The Billion-Dollar Stakes for OpenAI
The artificial intelligence giant is closing in on a deal with Microsoft regarding its future governance, but other questions stand over its huge costs.
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Klarna’s Market Debut Shows Wall Street’s Renewed Appetite for I.P.O.s
The company’s shares rose more than 14 percent on the first day of trading, a sign of the health of the public markets and a willingness of investors to bet on new companies.
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OpenAI Employee Stock Sale Would Value ChatGPT Maker at $500 Billion
At $500 billion, OpenAI would become the world’s most valuable privately held company.
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Trump Seeks to Sell Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Shares to Public Investors
More than a decade after the government bailed out the mortgage giants, the Trump administration is looking for a partial stock-market exit.
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Figma’s $20 Billion Sale Died. It Came Back to Go Public.
Figma, which makes a design platform, had been on the verge of a $20 billion sale before regulators quashed the deal. On Thursday, it went public, with the stock soaring 158 percent on its first trade.
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Chinese Battery Giant Surges in Hong Kong Market Debut
Shares of the company, CATL, surged in their first day of trading. Onshore U.S. investors were blocked from buying its stock as a “decoupling” of finance continued.
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SPAC Deals Are Back, This Time With a Trump Bump
President Trump’s associates and crypto entrepreneurs are rushing back to the market for the once-hot, but mostly troubled, investment vehicles called special purpose acquisition companies.
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Chobani Plans to Invest Over $1 Billion in New N.Y. Factory
The company, which has branched out from Greek-style yogurt, will invest more than $1 billion in the plant in the town of Rome.
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Stocks Fall as Inflation Anxiety Dampens Mood on Wall Street
The S&P 500 index dipped as investors weighed new hotter-than-expected inflation data and braced for President Trump’s next round of tariffs.