The volume of IPOs in the U.S. for the first two months of 2014 has reached its maximum size in 2000.

Companies are trying to take advantage of the boom in the stock market and high activity of investors, reports the newspaper The Wall Street Journal.

According to the company Dealogic in January and February of this year in the United States spent 42 companies offering, during which raised $ 8.3 billion

In 2000, 77 companies completed an IPO in the same period, and in 2013 - 20 companies.

The number of applications for IPO, filed in the U.S. for the first two months rose to 56 compared with 35 in January and February in 2007, the data confirm the Renaissance Capital LLC.