this year’s new issues market will go down in the record books as the busiest ever outpacing even the gogo days of the 1990s dotcom boom as of dec 23 1006 initial public offerings have raised about 3156 billion the most since dealogic began tracking the sector in 1995 the 1006 ipos surpassed the record set in 1996 when 848 companies went public during the beginning of the dotcom boom collecting 786 billion