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Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter‘s IPO data informs this story highlighting that too many directors at American companies aren’t doing their job.

BB&T Professor of Free Enterprise David Brown and Beth Ayers McCague Family Fellowship Associate Professor Brian Swider share insights into why Public dominates the city and crowds the Gainesville market. 

Research insights from R. Perry Frankland Professor David Gaddis Ross highlight why the presence of long-tenured independent directors on corporate boards can be an effective governance mechanism that leads to greater performance and reduced exposure to outside risks. However, there is a need for balance.

More than $6 billion of stock in private companies has been sold this year. Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter‘s IPO data informs this story.

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 companies he says use diversity quotas in hiring and promotions. Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter explains exchange traded funds (ETF).

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 the stage for more Chinese technology companies to test U.S. public markets following years of more muted IPO activity that in part reflected political tensions between the U.S. and China. Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter comments.

For a new study, Assistant Professor Gustavo Cortes and Yale School of Management’s Cameron LaPoint painstakingly assembled a dataset tracking local building permits over the last century. Again and again, they found, peaks in the issuing of permits preceded periods of economic turmoil, including the Great Depression, the oil shock recession of the mid 1970s, and the Global Financial Crisis. ‌

By restoring clarity and rigor to antitrust enforcement, the incoming administration can protect competition without punishing success, argues Mark Jamison, Gunter Professor and Public Utility Research Center Director.

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.

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. Trump Media shares ended the day up 16.7%. Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter shares his insights.