NYSE’s Martin Says Geopolitics Unlikely to Put Stop to IPOs (1)

Global conflicts, including the strikes on Iran over the past week, are unlikely to put a complete stop to companies tapping the US public markets, according to NYSE Group Inc. President Lynn Martin said.

“There’s always going to be geopolitical events happening, and the political framework is always going to continue to evolve,” Martin said Tuesday in a Bloomberg Television interview at the Bloomberg Invest conference in New York. “And if you’re a good company, you can always go public.”

Initial public offerings pulled back in recent years as companies chose to remain private longer, the result of private-capital availability ...