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U.S. grocery delivery app Instacart is considering going public through a direct listing, concerned that it could leave money on the table through a traditional initial public offering (IPO), according to people familiar with the matter. The move would make Instacart the latest company to snub an IPO, for decades the primary path to a stock market debut, because it risks pricing its offering too low compared to where its shares end up trading. In a direct listing, companies go public without r...

Steven Ferdman/Getty Images The "Risk Factors" section of that filing highlighted various challenges facing Coinbase. They include everything from the volatility of cryptocurrency to potential cyber attacks. One of the most popular cryptocurrency trading app companies, Coinbase, is officially going public via a direct listing: Coinbase filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission last year, and Wednesday is its first day of trading. As part of that process, Co...

  As you can see from the table, if we weight all ten factors equally on a scale of one to ten, it’s not clear that on average becoming a publicly traded company is either a smart move or a disaster. But averages are deceiving.  Average companies don’t exist. Each business has very specific goals and resources and market appeal.  For some businesses, access to capital and the cost of capital are high priorities that far outweigh the negatives of being public. To help you decide what’s ...

On Sunday, the Federal Reserve issued its second emergency interest rate cut of March, slashing its fed funds target range by 1% to between 0% and 0.25%. In addition to the rate cut, the Fed announced a new $700 billion quantitative easing program. On Monday morning, the Federal Reserve said it... Read More...

AlleyWatch CBS MarketWatch declared 2020: The Year of the SPAC (Special Purpose Acquisition Corporation). A record 219 companies went public through this fundraising vehicle that uses a reverse merger with an existing private business to create a publicly-listed entity. This accounted for more than $73 billion dollars of investment, providing private equity startups a new outlet to raise capital and provide shareholder liquidity. According to Goldman Sachs, the current trend represents a “...

The bitcoin/Facebook billionaire Winklevoss twins are mulling a public listing for Gemini Trust, their bitcoin exchange and custody service.

But not everyone is playing to pocket the most capital. Expensify is readying to go public sometime this year, but its founder David Barrett said he doesnt know how much his company is worth. Thats because the expense reporting software-maker hasnt had a private valuation in almost six years, the last time it raised venture capital, and has instead used profit to pay for its own expenses and growth. Its one of the few profitable businesses on the roster to go public this year. And if it pulls o...