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The hot IPO trend of 2020: blank-cheque companies

Jump shows investors are betting there will be good deals to scoop up when the coronavirus subsides

The companies raising the most money in the IPO market right now have no revenue, aren’t profitable and lack long-term business plans.

That is by design: They are blank-cheque companies, whose purpose is to raise money for acquisitions.

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