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Signs of exuberance are everywhere: Tesla roadsters, soaring real estate, overpriced vinegar – and eye-popping valuations for pre-IPO companies like Facebook and Zynga. So why are so many Silicon Valley denizens reluctant to use the B-word?

By David A. Kaplan, contributor

FORTUNE — Michael Dreyfus, 49, is a leading real estate broker in the heart of Silicon Valley. During the winter he sensed the housing market was coming back, though he hadn’t MORE

The IPO market hasn’t exactly been running at full throttle this year. And lately, it can’t seem to get out of first gear.

Thanks to its stake in Visa’s initial public offering this week, JPMorgan Chase & Co. has enough money to pay for its Bear Stearns purchase and still have about a billion dollars left over.

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Just because the U.S. economy might be looking at a recession, doesn’t mean a few good tech IPOs can’t light up the market. While no company is fully immune to economic retraction, he most promising technology companies have the advantage of a global m…

As financial markets go, so go initial public offerings.

We had our share of winners and losers, including a solar power play that shined, an IPO that soared, and a mortgage insurer that tanked.

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Which web giant best nurtures its upstart acquisitions?

Stock tumbles 6% after IPO charges hit private equity firm’s bottom line; management sees opportunities in weak mortgage market.

An inside look at the hyperintelligent, superconnected pack of serial entrepreneurs who left the payment service and are turning Silicon Valley upside down. Fortune’s Jeffrey O’Brien reports.

Classmates.com and CGEN Digital Media Company Limited could hit the public markets in December filed updates about their upcoming IPOs.

Citadel has made its reputation through shrewd, well-timed investments. But is its $2.55 billion infusion into E*Trade a wise move for it – and for shareholders?

CGEN’s larger competitor Focus Media announced it was buying CGEN in a deal that could ultimately wind up being worth $350 million.

Investors will have to wait a little while longer for the first pure-play social networking initial public offering in the United States.

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