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Finance Watch: Is The IPO Boom Making Anyone Nervous Yet?

 
• By Mandy Jackson

Public Company Edition: Is the IPO bubble getting ready to burst? It's anybody's guess, but biopharma companies are forging ahead, having launched 11 first-time offerings during the past week and a half. Also, Heron leads recent follow-on offerings with a $200m stock sale to fund what may soon be its third commercial product.

Finance Watch

It's hard to say definitively that there's a bubble in the US market for initial public offerings, but among biopharmaceuticals firms in particular it certainly feels that way, given the recent boom in IPOs.

When will the bubble burst? No one knows, but several therapeutics companies are rushing into the stock market with new...

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