Circle this date: March 23, 2020. If the current U.S. stock market conditions hold, that would mark the closing low for 2020’s bear market. After the market’s slide last Monday, a three-day rally lifted the Dow Jones Industrial Average back up into a bull market while moving the NASDAQ Composite Index and the S&P 500 […]
March 29, 2020 Read MoreA billion dollars’ worth of “blank check” IPOs are on tap this week after the Fed’s surprise rate cut on Sunday and U.S. stocks’ big rally on Friday, March 13th. Yes, Friday the 13th marked a “good luck” day for Wall Street: The three major U.S. stock market indexes reached for the sky and the […]
March 16, 2020 Read MoreSPACs are springing up on the IPO Calendar despite some big swings in the Dow Jones Industrial Average in the past 10 trading days. A biotech is the only IPO on tap this week, but SPACs are dotting the IPO skies like seasonal snow flurries. To recap last week: The blue-chip Dow average scored two […]
March 8, 2020 Read MoreA 3,583.05-point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average turned out to be the largest single weekly loss ever for the blue-chip index. But that didn’t stop the IPO market in its tracks – no matter what the financial press reported. There’s a $1.5 billion IPO on tap this week and a flurry of new […]
March 1, 2020 Read MoreWhen the sun comes up on Wall Street on Monday morning, Feb. 24, the IPO Calendar will have already produced its first IPO of the week. It is a small-cap Chinese healthcare provider. Fast forward to this Friday’s close for the debut of the only other IPO of the week. Interestingly enough, that one is […]
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