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IPO-hungry investors look to have their moment in 2019

Uber, Pinterest, Slack and others gear up for debuts, setting stage for what could be a record year

Cussion Kar Shun Pang, CEO of Tencent Music, (centre) launches the company's IPO at the New York Stock Exchange on December 12
Cussion Kar Shun Pang, CEO of Tencent Music, (centre) launches the company's IPO at the New York Stock Exchange on December 12 Photo: Getty Images

A whipsawing stock market could mean a bumpy path to public markets in 2019 for some of the fastest-growing and most richly valued private companies ever, but it isn’t currently expected to derail them.

Stock markets that have sold off sharply in recent months have been even more in tumult, thrashing up and down as the year ends.

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