Wall Street Journal (January 3)
2012/ 01/ 04 by jd in Global News
“For the third year in a row the world’s leading exchange for new stock offerings was located not in New York, but in Hong Kong. And even without counting Hong Kong’s $31 billion in deals, the various exchanges on the Chinese mainland slightly exceeded the $41 billion combined total of Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange, according to Dealogic.” The Journal blames the disappointing results on the cumbersome regulatory environment of the U.S. market since passage of the Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) Act.