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This 5 page paper considers the way the Wall Street Journal may be used to determine if it is a good time for an initial public offering to be made. The writer shows how the financial and news pages ma be used to search for relevant information. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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File: TS14_TEwalipo.rtf
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undertaking an initial public offering of their stock there are many consideration that should be remembered. Much of the information needed may be gleaned from the pages of the Wall
Street Journal. The company that is considering the IPO is a technology company that makes small and hand held computers. The first concern may be the current level of the
stock markets and whether they feel that the at the current levels they will be above to raise the right amount of capital as well as the level of attractiveness
the offering will hold for potential investors. The financial pages of the Wall Street Journal can give an indication of the general mood of the market, also how some
shares are behaving to give a future insight into the way that technology is seen by the market. The falls of April 2000 were harsh and IPOs at this stage
were likely to have suffered and been seen as risky. Ion looking at the performance of the S&P 500 there may be some concern, the market has been volatile.
The index closed at $894.74 on Friday 7th November, this was well above the fifty two week low of $776.76 but also shows that there have been drops as the
fifty two week high was $962.70(Wall Street Journal, 2002). The NASDAQ may be more informative, as this is where the high tech stocks are traded. This index closed on
the same day at $1359.280 against a fifty two week low of 1114.110 and a fifty two week high of $2098.880 (Wall Street Journal, 2002). This would indicate that at
the current time that it is less favourable to hold the high tech stocks. This can be seen not only in the way that the current level is near
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