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some bumper public offerings this year and twenty eight thousand one hundred has more you can say there twenty eighteen is shaping up to get really exciting for investors lots of companies plan to go public analysts say the market for initial public offering so i.p.o. s that s company issuing shares for the first time a total of two hundred ninety billion dollars this year alone let s have a look at what s on offer first and foremost we could see the largest i.p.o. in history worth up to one hundred billion dollars if saudi arabian oil co goes ahead with its plan to sell only five percent of its says on global financial markets music streaming platform spotify is doing somewhat less than an i.p.o. it s a direct listing they re looking for avoiding dilution of already existing share spotify has already raised more than a billion dollars from private financing ride sharing company lyft just got
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