Bloomberg Markets: The Open 2/11/19

on February 8, 2019

Santosh Rao from Manhattan Venture Partners speaks about the state of the 2019 IPO Market.

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Amazon overtakes Microsoft | Money Talks

on January 9, 2019

Amazon is now the world’s biggest publicly traded company. For the first time it’s overtaken Microsoft and other tech titans to get to the top of Wall Street, with a market value of nearly $800B. And that shows how far the company has come from humble e-commerce start-up to a multi-national behemoth that’s now a force in cloud computing and even artificial intelligence. To discuss the company’s success, Santosh Rao, Head of Research at Manhattan Venture Partners, joins us from New York.

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All clear for year-end rally says Santosh Rao

on December 3, 2018

Manhattan Venture Partners’ research head tells Reuters’ Fred Katayama the U.S.-China trade truce and the Fed’s dovish shift clears the way for a Santa Claus rally.

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Electric car maker Tesla’s shares surge on earnings

on October 26, 2018

Electric carmaker, Tesla, has reported its first quarterly profit in two years and just its third in its 15-year history. The windfall has been attributed to long-awaited breakthroughs that have boosted production of its popular Model 3 sedans and comes just after CEO Elon Musk’s disastrous attempt to take the company private. So is Tesla finally turning the corner? To help answer this question we speak to Santosh Rao, head of research at Manhattan Venture Partners, a merchant bank focused on the secondary market for late-stage, pre-IPO companies.

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Uber, Lyft Drive Toward the 2019 IPO Market

on October 17, 2018

Santosh Rao, head of research at Manhattan Venture Partners, Bloomberg’s Luke Kawa, and Kathleen Gaffney, director of diversified fixed income at Eaton Vance, look ahead to expectations that Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. will come to the IPO market in 2019. They speak on “Bloomberg Markets: The Open.” (Source: Bloomberg)

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GE replaces CEO shares soar

on October 1, 2018

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