New comment by roadside_picnic in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC" (opens in new tab)

It's more insidious than that. These IPOs aren't being rushed, they were waiting for all the pieces to be in place to force 401ks and other retirement plans to buy these IPOs.The most recent change was the NASDAQ adopting the "fast change rule" which allows newly IPO'd companies to be listed in the index after only 15 days of trading. This rule was decided March 30, 2026 and only came into effect May 1, 2026.The plan is to rapidly drive these prices up in the first 15 days, get the companies ...