Category Archives: The IPO Buzz

May’s IPO market opened on Friday with a “blank check” company and a healthcare issue making their debuts. This week’s IPO Calendar has another two deals. One is a blank check and the other is a gaming company whose shares are being upgraded to the U.S. capital markets from the AIM market of the London […]

Four IPOs got priced last week while a small-cap Chinese deal was pushed onto this week’s calendar. China Liberal Education Holdings (CLEU proposed) is the carryover. (We’ll have more on this minute.) Last week had an interesting message. Since the U.S. stock market’s recent pullback, the calendar has been all about “blank check” IPOs and biotech […]

The NASDAQ Composite Index surged 6.1 percent last week to close at 8,650.14, joining the Dow and the S&P 500 in bull market territory. All this blows some wind into Wall Street’s sails – and there is an IPO on the calendar this week. There’s also a stockholders’ vote this week on the DraftKings deal, […]

The coronavirus pandemic made itself felt in the 2020 securities markets and all but closed down the U.S. IPO market. There are no IPOs on the calendar this week, but things may have taken a positive turn over the last two weeks. On March 29th, The IPO Buzz headline read: Circle This. That was a […]

Just one IPO is in the wings this week – and it hails from the biopharma sector. This isn’t a coincidence. Any time an industrial sector outperforms the broad U.S. stock market, it can catch the investor’s eagle eye. This is what has happened since the three major U.S. stock indexes bottomed out on March […]

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 […]

Spring is off to a rocky start on Wall Street with no end in sight yet to the roller-coaster ride. U.S. stock futures started trading limit down on Sunday night after the Senate failed to approve a stimulus package worth more than $1 trillion to help the economy weather the coronavirus pandemic. The steep slide […]

A 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 […]

SPACs 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 […]

A 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 […]