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SpaceX's $150 debut valued the company near $2 trillion, pushing Musk's fortune to almost $1.05 trillion.

Investing.com -- Nvidia Corp. is preparing to sell investment-grade bonds for the first time in approximately five years, according to Bloomberg News. The chipmaker aims to raise at least $20 billion through the offering.

JPMorgan sees IPOs and share sales adding roughly $1.5 trillion of net stock supply over two years.

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(Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced what he described as a “full ban” on children using social media, one of the strictest online crackdowns in the democratic world and going beyond limits imposed by Australia last year.Most Read from BloombergIran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Confirms Deal Reached With USUS and Iran Agree to Halt War, Restart Middle East Oil ShipmentsIran Signals No Deal Will Be Signed by Trump’s Sunday TimelineWhy Musk Raced to Take SpaceX Public in the World’s B

(Bloomberg) -- The extraordinary move by the US to bar foreign access to Anthropic PBC’s best AI models underscores the Trump administration’s newfound willingness to exert control over a pivotal industry. It also reminds Silicon Valley that it’s working with an imperfectly understood technology with uncertain impact.Most Read from BloombergIran Signals No Deal Will Be Signed by Trump’s Sunday TimelineIran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Confirms Deal Reached With USUS and Iran Agree to Halt War, Rest

The country offers a different way to play the boom, with relative bargains to be found, but volatile geopolitics are a challenge.

Investing.com -- Agentic shopping is the use of AI agents to carry out parts of the shopping process on behalf of the customer instead of merely providing recommendations. Google’s agentic shopping protocol, for instance, enables agents to work across different parts of the buying processes, including discovery and post-purchase support. But has agentic shopping reached the capacity to directly make shopping decisions on customers’ behalf?

Apple has spent years trying to convince investors that its next major growth story will not depend only on a new iPhone. That effort has become more urgent as artificial intelligence reshapes the technology industry, with rivals including Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta moving faster with ...

SpaceX's record IPO on Friday is a reassuring sign for Wall Street that the AI bull market has plenty of runway to go.

Investing.com -- Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) remains one of the strongest players in online travel, but artificial intelligence could eventually challenge some of the company’s competitive advantages, according to a report from Bernstein.

"The reason is that companies tend to issue when equity demand is strong, earnings momentum is healthy and investor risk appetite is elevated."

SpaceX’s soaring shares, which brought the company’s market value to $2.1 trillion on Friday, was a stunning debut for the first of what could be three of the largest IPOs in history. AI giants Anthropic and OpenAI have filed paperwork in preparation for potential public listings and could IPO later this year. What does SpaceX say about investor appetite for AI?

(Bloomberg) -- The US Justice Department has closed its antitrust probe into Paramount Skydance Corp.’s $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., according to people familiar with the decision.Most Read from BloombergSpaceX IPO Raises $75 Billion in Biggest Debut of All TimeUS, Iran Edge Toward Interim Deal Signing Close to G7 Next WeekXbox Plans Significant Layoffs as New CEO Plans OverhaulSpaceX Shares Close 19% Higher After Historic $75 Billion IPOTrump Insists Iran Deal Is Close

The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 0.7% this week as the US edged closer to signing a peace deal w

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

(Bloomberg) -- SpaceX decided to rent out the full capacity of its Colossus 1 data center in Memphis to Anthropic PBC after encountering technical challenges using the facility to develop and run its Grok artificial intelligence models, according to people familiar with the matter. Most Read from BloombergSpaceX IPO Raises $75 Billion in Biggest Debut of All TimeUS, Iran Edge Toward Interim Deal Signing Close to G7 Next WeekXbox Plans Significant Layoffs as New CEO Plans OverhaulTrump Insists Ir

The march of trillicorn initial public offerings doesn’t portend doom for investors. But it’s worth keeping an eye on just the same.

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 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’s record-shattering IPO shows investors are eager to write big checks to finance the artificial-intelligence buildout, according to Goldman Sachs President John Waldron. “The capital markets are demonstrating a willingness to finance these extraordinary companies as we build out this AI infrastructure,” said Waldron in an interview with Bloomberg TV.

Management has gone quiet on the geopolitical cost pressures that once dominated its calls, but the new, unquantified component headwind they're flagging instead could pose a more direct threat to record profits.

Investing.com -- A wave of mega IPOs from SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI, alongside fresh share sales from AI hyperscalers, could pose a significant test for the stock market, according to Capital Economics, which warned that surging equity supply has historically coincided with the late stages of major equity booms.

The SpaceX CEO's fortune on paper now rivals the annual economic output of many countries, according to World Bank data.

Entrepreneur Elon Musk is savvy when it comes to maintaining control of his companies. He owns 46% of SpaceX.

Hedge funds sold out of the biggest U.S. tech stocks, and some even added ‌bearish positions, according to data from a JPMorgan note late ‌Thursday, just before SpaceX was set to go public on Friday. Shares in the "Magnificent Seven" -- ​a group that includes some of the biggest tech names on Wall Street, namely Nvidia, Apple, Amazon.com, Alphabet, Meta, Tesla, and Microsoft, have all declined since last Friday. The Roundhill Magnificent Seven ETF, which tracks these ‌stocks closely, declined over 2.4% ⁠since June 5, with some analysts saying investors were clearing their decks in order to prepare for the ⁠debut of Elon Musk's Space X on Friday.

Apple's new smarter version of Siri gets its brains from Google.

AI firm Anthropic is planning to lease and manage its own data centers and is ‌seeking financial backing from Alphabet's Google for the ‌lease payments, The Information reported on Thursday. • Anthropic, the ​creator of the Claude Code AI assistant, has signed more than a dozen preliminary agreements to lease U.S. data centers with a combined capacity of more than 1 GW, The Information ‌reported, citing sources with ⁠direct knowledge of the plans. • The AI startup's executives have also discussed an arrangement under which backer ⁠Google, which co-designs some of the server chips Anthropic could use in the facilities, would provide a financial guarantee for its ​lease ​payments, the report said.

Artificial intelligence (AI) companies will tap the capital markets for hundreds of billions of dollars over a very short time span.

This is the second piece in a series examining "boring" large-cap stocks that have outperformed the Nasdaq-100 over the past five years. The first piece provided an overview of the five companies. This week we begin breaking down the data behind each of the individual companies. This week's focus: ...