[ceejayoz]

A handful of IPOs won't stave off a recession. (It's entirely possible to cancel an IPO, too.)

If I were a big pre-IPO company, I'd probably want to go IPO before the recession, in order to get operating capital to survive it.

[cududa]

A few tech IPOs does not make a strong stock market. Seems a bit silly to judge market health on tech having a few IPOs next year

[cwperkins]

I'm not, but its one of the things I track. A mixture of unemployment, yield curve us2y10y spread, deal activity are all things I look for to signal the end of a cycle. Tomorrow's job report will be interesting, but given all the other indicators I still think we're looking at a sideways to up market next year. Caveat being the risk of a recession elsewhere in the world and the contagion effect.