"Over the last year, the US IPO market set a 14-year record against a mostly low-volatility backdrop. With 273 IPOs, 2014 was the most active period of issuance since 406 companies went public in 2000. It was the second year of uninterrupted IPO activity, up 23% over 2013, due to a doubling of biotech issuance. Proceeds of $85 billion, inflated by Alibaba’s $22 billion offering, were up 55% over 2013. While various global events, such as Russia’s incursion into the Ukraine and conflicts in the Middle East, caused nervousness in global markets, they largely failed to disrupt the US IPO applecart. Average IPO performance of 16% for the year was close to the ten-year mean, but well below the 41% average return in 2013. Despite a handful of mostly small-capitalization IPOs that rose over 100%, investors hewed to strict valuation discipline, with 40% of IPOs pricing below the range. All this sets us up for a solid 2015 IPO market, as a healthy pipeline and still-positive US economic backdrop should support another year with more than 200 IPOs." Source Reinaissance Capital
there are lots of records being broken that we haven't seen since the crisis....but this time its different, right? HAHAHAHA RECORDS on wall street since the collapse of 2007 $70 Trillion in TOTAL GLOBAL EQUITY MARKET VALUE, Stimulus-Fed Rally Back On as Global Stocks Top $70 Trillion Stocks worldwide have gained about $5 trillion in value in 2015 so far this year ALONE SOURCE: BLOOMBERG $476 Billion in stock margin DEBT As of March 31st, 10,149 hedge funds previous high was in 2007 when 10,096 existed, 1040 new funds ALONE HAVE LAUNCHED in 2014!!! Total industry assets in hedge funds are $2.94 trillion, another all-time high CHRISTIE’S CONTEMPORARY ART SALE NETS $852.9 M., ALL-TIME AUCTION RECORD BY Dan Duray POSTED 11/12/14 11:59 PM This untitled Cy Twombly from 1970 handily surpassed its estimate, $35 million to $55 million, selling for $69.6 million with premium. (see that art piece above, just a bunch of circles that a 2nd grader can do, sells for $69.6 million dollars in November 2014, but don't tell that to the one who paid $70 million dollars or any of those working in that market, because everyone knows you can flip art and make millions in this bubble art market, Im sure this will sell for over $100 million in 2020 if it ever goes back to auction, nothing says bubble like the contemporary art market, bubble bubble bubble.....Did I say BUBBLE!!!! Contemporary Art Surges in New York October 2, 2014 by Karolina Prawdzik Karolina Prawdzik is an art market researcher based in Luxembourg. She has a background in finance and alternative investments, with a special focus on luxury assets like gems and art. This is her analysis of the New York Contemporary art sales: The result, announced on Monday, was a crushing sales success: Nearly one million more vehicles were sold in the United States last year than in 2013. According to the tracking company Autodata, 16.5 million new autos hit the streets — the highest number since the record of 16.94 million in the prerecession days of 2006. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/06/business/us-auto-sales-jump-for-2014.html?_r=0 $28.5B in bonuses, an average of $172K, breaks post-Great Recession record Fed’s balance sheet reach $4.5 trillion Car loans break record at $886 Billion in 4th Quarter of 2014, highest level since the firm began publicly reporting the data in 2007 $1.2 Trillion in Student loan debt, highest in history!! For a more dramatic look at the same data, here it is with a standard linear axis. Record 2014 IPO MARKET.....275 deals that raised $85 billion, making it the most active year for the IPO market since 2000. Remember 2000 was when we had that dot com bubble, I'm sure most forgot by now... Optimism was high on the private equity (PE) exit front going into 2014, but as we explain in Bain & Company’s Global Private Equity Report 2015, exits shattered even the lofty expectations of an industry primed for a good year. Worldwide, the number and value of buyout-backed exits reached new records (see figure). At better than 1,250 sales, last year’s exit count surpassed its previous peak of 1,219 transactions in 2007. And total exit value, at $456 billion, also blew past its previous record of $354 billion in 2007 and was 67% higher than it was in 2013. Record Buy backs, there is going to be $1 TRILLION worth of buybacks this year, highest on RECORD....At the current pace, stock buyback authorizations are set to total $1 trillion this year, blowing past 2007’s record of $863 billion Companies in the S&P 500 spent $564.7 billion on share repurchases over the past 12 months, which was a year-over-year increase of 18%, according to FactSet Research. In fact, 72% of all companies in the index bought back shares in the fourth quarter of 2014. Read more: http://www.nasdaq.com/article/are-r...o-much-of-a-good-thing-cm463261#ixzz3ZBJobw45 Ill keep the list updated and will add new records as they come along, these I listed are just some, there are plenty of more records set since the financial crisis, but this time its different as there is absolutely nothing to worry about, move along as the fed balance sheet swells to records never seen before, ....remember the fed has created the next asset bubble, its here and isnt going away until the next collapse comes...the only way to grow todays economy is though the development of asset bubbles, thats what has been happening for close to 30 years now as we have forgotten what a real economy is all about...economics 101 doesn't exist any longer and never will since the fed and central banks now control the markets and everything in between, as there is no organic growth left at all in the US everything we rely on now comes from stimulus and worthless dollars....