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Halfway through 2019 its the last trading day of the first half how has tech performed what about all of these recent ipos bob pisani has some of those answers and joins us on set. You know what i love . I love how wrong the consensus is humans are terrible at predicting the future and nobody is worse than wall street at it, so remember when we started in 2000, back in january, everybody said, the ipo market, oh, theres going to be 200 of them. Everybodys going to go public no one will want all of this stuff. Theyll price this stuff too high and the only thing anybody wants is uber and lyft are they sure they want those . Everything was wrong. Look at the numbers. Were at the first half of the year with. 62 in the Second Quarter, 25 billion. It was the most active quarter by deal count in four years. It was the most capital raised in five years. And look at the 30 the average return on ipo. Thats twice what it historically has bee ....