Uber's IPO Joins Ranks of Wall Street Flops

  • Ride-hailing stock kept falling as U.S. markets rebounded
  • Last private funding round valued Uber at about $76 billion

Pedestrians pass in front of the New York Stock Exchange during Uber Inc.'s IPO in New York on May 10.

Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
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It was to usher in nothing less than a new era for Wall Street. UFAANG.

That ungainly acronym, envisioned by some at Morgan Stanley as the hype grew over Uber Technologies Inc., put the ride-hailing company in the same league as the titans of tech: Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google.