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I'm Tracy Allaway.

Tracy Allaway.

Tracy 2019 has been a lot of interesting things that have happened in markets so far this year

but one of the defining characteristics I think has to be that it's really been the year of the

IPO or at least IPOs have been a big story in a

way that they haven't been in a long time. Right and not just any IPOs we've

had quite a few tech company IPOs right so we had let's see

Uber beyond meat both like relatively

I guess some people would call it unsuccessful giving the share price performance since then.

Well, Uber, I guess, has been a little bit unsuccessful in the fact that it didn't have a pop.

And Beyond Meat is unsuccessful in the other direction in the sense that it soared to an insane degree since it went public

implying that the company left a lot of money on the table. Although to be honest

you know, when stocks or I get this argument that a company left a lot of money on the table, but I doubt anyone is

really complaining because they're all crazy rich now, so. Oh yeah you you hear that all the time that the underwriters messed up or something but yeah I doubt anyone who's standing there watching like the listing price watching their net value go up is actually upset about that one.

Yeah like are they really that upset and they can always sell more stock in a secondary

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