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Agios Pharmaceuticals gains almost 74% in market debut as biotech fever continues

Agios Pharmaceuticals, a biotech developing metabolic treatments for cancer and rare genetic diseases, rose 73.8% in its market debut, making it the best biotech first-day return since Pain Therapeutics (NASDAQ: PTIE) rose 82.3% in its July 2000 debut. The ...read more

Epizyme prices IPO at $15, the high end of the range

Epizyme, a biotech developing therapeutics for patients with genetically defined cancers, raised $77 million by offering 5.1 million shares at $15, the high end of the range of $13 to $15. Epizyme plans to list on the NASDAQ under the symbol EPZM. Epizyme...read more

US IPO Recap: IPO market continues torrid pace with six pricings, 12 new filers

Six US IPOs were able to raise $970 million last week including two $330 million + deals. Three IPOs offered double-digit first-day pops, including e-commerce platform ChannelAdvisor (32%), which continued a streak of ten consecutive enterprise software...read more