Highly anticipated Uber shares sink in IPO debut

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Uber Technologies' conservative initial public offering could not keep its shares from sinking in their trading debut on Friday last week, fuelling debate on Wall Street over whether the outcome of the most anticipated listing since Facebook would weigh on other Silicon Valley...

"If a venture capital investor wants to burn cash they can do that as long as they want, but once you get to the public markets, you have to show profitability or a path to it," said Mr Jordan Stuart, a portfolio manager at Federated Kaufmann who often purchases companies' shares during an IPO.

Only about a fifth of IPOs have ended their first day of trading in the red in the last two years, according to Dealogic data.

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