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To: Dale Baker who wrote (29479)	2/28/2002 4:45:09 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 118717

A sign of changing times: IPO Calendar : Companies continue to have an extremely difficult time bringing their shares to market. The problem is that underwriters no longer can use retail investor gullibility as a means of ensuring that institutions make money on the deals. With the little guys no longer standing in line to cram down overhyped technology IPOs, institutional investors are forced to be far more selective about what they take into their portfolios. The increased selectivity has led to a dramatic decline in the number of new offerings, and a major shift in the type of deal that is making it to market. Roughly a dozen IPOs have come to market so far in 2002. Of those, just two have been technology related (and that is only if you include online payment service PayPal in the category). In the attached table we look at the performance of the 2002 initial public offering class through February. --Damon Southward, Briefing.com