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Uber reportedly chooses the NYSE for IPO as competitor Lyft gears up to list on the Nasdaq

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The competition between Uber and Lyft has no bounds.

Just days before Lyft is set to go public on the Nasdaq, Uber has chosen the rival New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) for its own forthcoming initial public offering (IPO), according to Bloomberg.

Uber, which is reportedly expected to file publicly in April, could hit the public markets at a valuation as high as $120 billion. That means Uber will bring the NYSE along for the ride on what will likely be the largest IPO of 2019.

Lyft is expected to start trading at the end of next week on the Nasdaq.

While all eyes are on Lyft as a test of the economy and public markets, its IPO is considerably smaller. Lyft is expected to price around or above $23 billion, the high end of the proposed valuation the company shared in an updated registration statement on Monday.

In addition to choosing different exchanges, the competing companies have taken steps to ensure they don't have too many of the same banks on their IPOs either, according to people familiar with the IPOs.

On Thursday, the jean company Levi Strauss went public on the NYSE, and Pinterest is reportedly planning to list with the same exchange in April.

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Becky Peterson was formerly a tech features correspondent focused on long-form profiles and investigations into the most interesting people and companies at the intersection of technology and finance.She's broken news on major tech stories including Palantir's work on Project Maven, Peter Thiel's $18 million estate in Miami (which was once featured on MTV's 'The Real World'), Jeffrey Epstein's tour of SpaceX, and Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's insistence that employees take "the D."Previously, she covered enterprise tech and tech investment banking with a focus on M&A, IPO and venture capital deals in San Francisco. She graduated from New York University with a master's degree in media, culture and communication with an emphasis on technology and society. ExpertiseSilicon Valley, Venture Capital, Investment Banking, Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine MaxwellPopular articlesInside the turmoil at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where employees say divorce, Epstein, and vaccines have left some staffers polishing their résumésThe secret life of Ian Osborne, the shadowy 38-year-old cofounder of Chamath Palihapitiya's SPAC who has built the ultimate black book of billionairesSilicon Valley VCs are at war with the 'far left radicals' running CaliforniaInside the life of Ghislaine Maxwell's secret husband, a once-high-flying tech entrepreneur backed by Eric Schmidt who is now a central figure in one of the country's most high-profile legal casesRent the Runway CEO Jennifer Hyman, one of the most successful female founders, is fighting to save her companyJeffrey Epstein set Elon Musk's brother up with a girlfriend in effort to get close to the Tesla founder, sources sayA drunken late-night assault allegation has roiled the secretive world of Mark Zuckerberg's private family office. Personal aides are speaking out about claims that household staff endured sexual harassment and racism from their colleagues.