{"id":991979,"date":"2026-02-14T08:57:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991979"},"modified":"2026-02-14T09:09:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:39:33","slug":"software-selloff-is-disrupting-some-ma-and-ipo-deals-us-bankers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/14\/software-selloff-is-disrupting-some-ma-and-ipo-deals-us-bankers-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Software selloff is disrupting some M&amp;A and IPO deals, US bankers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A broad selloff in software stocks is starting to stall deal-making and IPOs in the sector as volatility makes valuations unreliable and potential buyers cautious, about a dozen financial advisers and dealmakers told Reuters. <\/p>\n<p>The months-long rout deepened last week, with the S&amp;P 500 software and services index posting its worst three-month performance since May 2002, Evercore ISI equity strategists said. <\/p>\n<p>While the sector has clawed back some losses, it is still down about 25% from its October 28 record while the S&amp;P 500 is up 1%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A broad selloff in software stocks is starting to stall deal-making and IPOs in the sector as volatility makes valuations unreliable and potential buyers cautious, about a dozen financial advisers and dealmakers told Reuters. The months-long rout deepened last week, with the S&amp;P 500 software and services index posting its worst three-month performance since May 2002, Evercore ISI equity strategists said. While the sector has clawed back some losses, it is still down about 25% from its October 28 record while the S&amp;P 500 is up 1%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}