This October several sizeable IPOs were forced either to cut their price range or cancel their plans altogether as investors pushed for steeper discounts and lower valuations. At the same time, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China’s record-breaking IPO, which could raise as much as $22 billion, has attracted more than $500 billion of demand.
That decent companies’ IPOs should be stymied during a time when the volume of equity capital being raised worldwide is at its...
