A breezy start

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to a new week. Winter may finally be on its way, with a cool breeze in the air today.

Our lead today: ’tis the season for IPOs. With the bourse in its busiest IPO year in a while and more offerings lined up before year-end, we break down what it takes to go from a board decision to a ticker. We cover who can list and the sequence of steps, using MNT-Halan’s six weeks from filing to first trade as a case study.

Elsewhere in today’s issue, we tune into Wonderstruck, a podcast on consciousness, awe, and the uncanny, and kick off the week with the football fixtures we’re watching tonight at home and in Europe, including Manchester United vs. Aston Villa and Atlético Madrid vs. Barcelona. That and more.