“Notwithstanding the extraordinary market conditions that skewed some usually reliable measures of competitiveness, significant further deterioration in U.S. public equity market competitiveness clearly stands out.”

The Committee released its findings documenting the huge second quarter decline in IPO activity in the United States and foreign markets, a continuing reduction in the ability of U.S. markets to capture IPOs, and a failure by U.S. markets to list any of the largest IPOs in 2008.

NEW YORK, May 28, 2008 – The Committee on Capital Markets Regulation (“Committee”), has released its competitiveness update for the first quarter of 2008 showing that the U.S. retains a shrinking share of a shrinking market. The Committee, an independent and nonpartisan research organization dedicated to improving the regulation of U.S. capital markets, said that […]

The New York Stock Exchange’s (NYSE) foreign company delisting rate skyrocketed to 15.1% in 2007 from 6.6% in 2006, according to a new study by the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation (CCMR).