Did Mod­er­na break the biotech IPO mar­ket?

2018 end­ed re­plete with a record-break­ing round of FDA ap­provals and IPO cash rich­es for the year. But that ra­pa­cious en­thu­si­asm soured as De­cem­ber rav­aged stocks across the board, in­clud­ing some ag­gres­sive­ly val­ued new­ly-pub­lic com­pa­nies that al­so end­ed up as col­lat­er­al dam­age, as the cor­rec­tion at the end of the year blurred lines in­to a bear mar­ket.

While the sell-side came out gun­ning with am­bi­tious stock price pro­jec­tions ear­ly Wednes­day, one promi­nent set of an­a­lysts sees mar­ket sen­ti­ment tip­ping to­ward an an­gry back­lash that could have a pro­found im­pact on an in­dus­try that’s en­joyed bil­lions in new pub­lic in­vest­ments.

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