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The pressure is on the company—and newly minted trillionaire Elon Musk—to deliver.

Markets eased into the weekend with modest gains, as the SpaceX IPO made Elon Musk a trillionaire and Middle East peace seemed near.

The stock market ended another turbulent week on a high note amid all the buzz of SpaceX’s initial public offering. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 353 points, or 0.7%. The S&P 500 gained 0.5%. The Nasdaq rose 0.

The SpaceX party is just getting started. A rite of passage for initial public offerings is the closing-deal party, typically held at a Manhattan stalwart such as Cipriani. SpaceX’s early employees, executives and underwriting team will be toasting the biggest IPO of all time Friday night at the new JPMorgan Chase headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, people familiar with the matter said.

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JPMorgan will host a post-IPO celebration for SpaceX employees on the top floor of JPMorgan’s Manhattan headquarters on June 12. The event was envisioned by Jamie Dimon and pitched directly to Elon Musk. It features a custom rooftop light display designed by artist Leo Villareal and shown here as a render. It will include a SpaceX themed spread including SpaceX themed cocktails and a rocket cake. The bank, which just earned $75 million serving as a lead underwriter to the rocket company’s IPO, expects 250 SpaceX employees to attend.

SpaceX shares are up more than 20% in their market debut, right in the range of first-day “pops” bankers like to see. Not every big IPO has gone so smoothly. Meta, then known as Facebook, went public in 2012 and closed up just 0.

SpaceX's record $75 billion - the largest IPO in History. SPX charts point to a 7,000 retest before trend continuation.

Shares of several retail brokers that offered shares of SpaceX to customers at the IPO price rose on Friday, although not as dramatically as SpaceX's more than 20% gain. Charles Schwab shares were up 3% in late afternoon trading Friday, although the company also had some non-SpaceX good news of its own that probably helped boost the stock: solid growth in new assets and brokerage accounts. Robinhood's stock gained more than 1.5%, despite the fact that the firm reported some technical issues earlier Friday due to the "record-breaking traffic."

A SpaceX-Tesla merger seems inevitable.

Shares of SpaceX traded around the middle of Friday's price range, as the most hyped IPO in years finally arrived in the broad stock market and immediately became one of the largest companies in the world. The IPO raised $75 billion, making it the largest initial public offering in history. It also values the company at roughly $1.8 trillion initially.

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The brokerage’s official help account posted on X that the platform saw “record-breaking traffic today.”

SpaceX and lead IPO banker Goldman Sachs began meeting with prospective IPO investors back in January, Axios has learned.

CNBC Wealth Editor correspondent Robert Frank delivered a milestone moment on air this morning, saying: “By the end of today, Elon Musk will likely become the world’s first trillionaire.” This comes as the result of the long-awaited SpaceX IPO, which is poised to revalue Musk’s privately held stake at public-market multiples and push his net ... Wealth Expert: SpaceX IPO Will Likely Make Elon Musk the World’s First Trillionaire

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It’s fitting that the largest IPO ever debuted on a day that Wall Street was back chasing momentum stocks. The S&P 500 was up 0.5%. The Nasdaq was up 0.4%. The Dow was up 384 points, or 0.8%. SpaceX stock was up 27% to $170.

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Investors may not have gotten as many shares of SpaceX from brokerage firms as they would have liked. There were some technical issues at Robinhood, however. A spokeswoman for Charles Schwab said that "the process went as anticipated, with an unprecedented number of clients requesting shares and all eligible clients who completed the affirmation process receiving at least a portion of their requested order."

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SpaceX shares were at almost $173 in late trading on Friday, up 28% from the $135 IPO price and 15% from the $150 opening price. Things are on track for an orderly one-day post-IPO pop. A 10% to 30% pop for a large tech IPO is normal and shows that the deal was priced well and the market was ready to accept the terms offered.

Elon Musk's SpaceX (SPCX) began trading on the Nasdaq after its IPO on Friday, June 12. Nasdaq (NDAQ) President Nelson Griggs sits down with Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi and Market Catalysts Host Julie Hyman to discuss the public debut, making SpaceX the second Elon Musk-run company to premiere on the Nasdaq.

Investing.com -- Robinhood experienced service disruptions on Friday as record-breaking traffic hit the platform during trading of SpaceX shares following the company’s initial public offering.

SpaceX just rewrote the IPO record book. The company sold more than 555 million shares at $135 each, raising $75 billion and landing a valuation of nearly $1.8 trillion. According to CNBC’s Melissa Lee, that places SpaceX as the seventh most valuable U.S. company, ahead of Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA), and pushes Elon Musk to the edge ... SpaceX Raises Record $75 Billion in Historic IPO, Reaches $1.8 Trillion Valuation

The total fee pool for SpaceX's IPO is around $500 million, or 0.7% of the $75 billion raised, according to a filing and people familiar with the matter. Lead banks Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley will take home the lion’s share of that, getting a combined 40% or around $100 million apiece.

The IPO market is back, and it’s not the same companies leading the charge. FAANG had a good run, but a new acronym is taking over: MANGOS — Meta (or Microsoft, depending on who you ask), Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, and SpaceX. Half of that bunch is heading to public markets in the same window, and it’s a stress test for investors, for valuations, and for […]

SpaceX (SPCX) is finally off to the races and publicly trading after its historic IPO on Friday, June 12. Nasdaq (NDAQ) President Nelson Griggs sits down with Market Catalysts Host Julie Hyman and Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi to discuss the lessons his company has learned from Facebook's — now Meta Platforms (META) — own IPO in 2012.

The rocket and satellite company raised $75 billion in the largest IPO ever, valuing SpaceX at $1.77 trillion at its offering price

The SpaceX IPO has boosted Musk's paper wealth to more than $1,000,000,000,000 at a time when he is more hated -- and powerful -- than ever.