NYSE Chief Says Tide Will Turn on Private Equity

John Thain, chief executive of the NYSE Group, offered up some sobering words Friday about the explosive rise of private equity, which has swept many publicly traded companies off of the world’s major exchanges. He said, in effect: They’ll come back to us.
Half of last year’s initial public offerings on the New York Stock Exchange, which the NYSE operates, represented private equity firms exiting their investments, making buyout shops “our biggest customers,” Mr. Thain said from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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