IPO window and public-market shrinkage. A reopening window supplies stock and marks the cycle's late stage; fewer public companies concentrate the index and push growth into private funds.
What to watch: IPO volume; number of listed companies; PE exit backlog. It arrives quarterly, and the effect typically lasts months.
It sits in tier 3 — Flows and mechanics: Moves prices without changing anything fundamental, on horizons from hours to weeks. Who is forced to buy or sell, and when. Ignore this tier and market moves will regularly look inexplicable.
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Also in Corporate actions and stock-specific events
- Individual earnings reports and guidance
- Pre-announcements and profit warnings
- Mergers and acquisitions
- IPOs, lockup expirations, and secondaries
- Share issuance and dilution
- Insider buying and selling
- Activist investors and 13D filings
- 13F holdings disclosures
- Analyst upgrades, downgrades, and price targets
- Short-seller reports and accounting questions
- Management and board changes
- Product launches, trial results, and approvals
- Litigation, settlements, and product liability
- Corporate credit rating changes
- Dividend cuts, initiations, and special dividends
- Stock splits
- Index inclusion and deletion
- FDA approvals and PDUFA dates
- Private equity exit backlog and marks