The volume of new companies coming to market with IPOs plunged 72 per cent to $82.8bn, down from $299.4bn in 2007, according to data from Dealogic.
Meanwhile total equity issuance, excluding the largely closed Saudi and Chinese A-share market, fell 33 per cent to $632.8bn in 2008 compared with $943.8bn in 2007. Emerging markets bore the brunt of the change, with equity issuance in the Bric economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China diving 68 per cent to $83.3bn from a high of $259.8bn in 2007.
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