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IPO data collected by Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter informs this story highlighting that too many directors at American companies aren’t doing their job.  Read more from The Economist. 

For years, the biggest startup founders would dream of an initial public offering. It was the key to raising capital, drumming up attention and rewarding longtime employees and early investors with a big payout. Not any more. These days, many

At President-elect Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club Thursday, James Fishback, CEO and co-founder of Azoria Partners, unveiled a new anti-“woke” investment fund, the Azoria 500 Meritocracy ETF, that will mirror the S&P 500 index except in one respect: It will not include

Autonomous-driving company Pony AI Inc.’s newly issued stock fell nearly 8% below its offering price of $13 a share Wednesday as the biggest initial public offering in months for a Chinese company began trading. The Pony AI offering potentially sets

Trump Media & Technology Group’s revenue and share price have sagged as its losses have piled up. The president-elect’s return to the White House could complicate things even more. Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter shares his insights in this story

Donald Trump’s social media company ended the trading day up Monday on reports it’s looking to buy crypto trading firm Bakkt. Shares of Bakkt, backed by NYSE-owner Intercontinental Exchange, skyrocketed more than 160% and were halted multiple times due to volatility.

Investors have been waiting for the US IPO market to thaw after two challenging years. Donald Trump’s election win may help do just that. Since Trump’s victory last week, the stocks of investment banking leaders including Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan,

Klarna, the buy-now-pay-later company, aims to tap into revival of interest in stocks like Affirm and SoFi with its recent IPO. With shares of other financial-technology, or fintech, companies such as Sofi Technologies Inc. on fire in recent weeks and

Analysts have spent years attempting to ascertain Trump’s precise net worth—and Trump hasn’t helped, by refusing to publish his tax returns over the years. According to Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter, though, the largest part of Trump’s paper wealth is

Donald Trump may have joined the ranks of America’s richest people through his real estate holdings, from golf courses to hotels, but it’s his stake in the fledgling Trump Media & Technology Group that has more than doubled his net