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Jul 03 2007 12:00am EDT

IPO Datapoints of the Day

Remember all that hype about how no one wanted to list in New York any more? We might have to revisit some of those numbers, since IPO fever seems to have hit the US markets. Michelle Leder notes that eight different companies filed to go public in just one day yesterday, including giants Och-Ziff Capital and Netsuite.

Meanwhile, a software company called BladeLogic announced today that it's going to raise $45 million as it lists on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol BLOG. Somewhere in Soho, Nick Denton sheds a tear, and reminds himself that he never really wanted to go public anyway.

Update: Paul Kedrosky has tracked down more facts. Eight IPO filings in one day is the greatest since May 12, 2006, when there were ten. The all-time high is eleven, from one day in March 2000.

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