After best-ever start to a year, $49 billion Asia IPO boom likely to taper off
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Last Updated: Apr 04, 2021, 10:04 AM IST
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Asian companies, like their global peers, notched their best first quarter for listings ever, thanks to a flood of liquidity during the pandemic, super-low interest rates, and rallying stock markets.
Now, a global rotation out of highly-valued tech and health-care stocks that have dominated market activity.
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By Julia Fioretti
As in the U.S., initial public offering activity out of Asia has had its strongest-ever start to a year. That frenzy for new shares is likely to taper off as demand falls back to earth in the next few months.