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The phrase sounds almost impossible: a short squeeze involving index funds. After all, index funds are designed to be passive, rules-based buyers, not active traders caught on the wrong side of a position. Yet that is exactly the scenario Animal Spirits hosts Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson laid out on Episode 467, “The Biggest Short ... SpaceX IPO Could Create ‘The Biggest Short Squeeze’ of All Time on Index Funds. Here’s How That Happens.

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Investing.com -- Yardeni Research said growing evidence suggests the artificial intelligence boom is extending beyond major technology companies and into the broader U.S. economy, supporting hiring, business formation, and investment despite ongoing geopolitical and inflation risks.

Nasdaq, S&P 500 and Dow Jones indices all ended the week ending June 5, lower.

Bloomberg's Bailey Lipschultz breaks down a busy week in SpaceX news, as the aerospace company prepares for an IPO. SpaceX and Google entered into an agreement for cloud services where Google has agreed to pay SpaceX $920 million per month for computing, something Lipschultz says is indicative of the expansion of the scope of work SpaceX is looking to do.

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SpaceX on Friday disclosed a new multiyear cloud-service agreement with Google that will generate roughly $920 million per month starting in October.

SpaceX on Friday signed a blockbuster cloud computing agreement under which Google will pay the Elon Musk-founded rocket company $920 million per month for access to a massive cluster of AI chips, according to a disclosure in its initial public offering filing.The deal resembles one struck with AI giant Anthropic, in which SpaceX leased compute capacity at its Colossus data centers in Memphis, Tennessee for $1.25 billion a month.

Google has agreed to rent data-center capacity from SpaceX, expanding the rocket company’s artificial-intelligence business ahead of its initial public offering. Google will pay SpaceX $920 million a month from October 2026 to June 2029 in a deal that includes the computing capacity of at least 110,000 Nvidia chips, according to a SpaceX securities filing on Friday. The deal will ramp up over summer, and Google has the right to cancel the agreement in October if SpaceX doesn’t provide the promised chips, SpaceX said.

Meta stock fell more than 6% Friday following a report that it will sell new stock to raise cash for its AI buildout.

SpaceX said on Friday ‌it has entered ‌into a multi-year cloud service ​agreement with Alphabet's Google for access to compute capacity. As part ‌of ⁠the deal, Google will pay SpaceX $920 ⁠million per month from October this ​year to ​June ​2029, with capacity ‌ramping up through September at a reduced fee, Elon Musk's space venture said in ‌a U.S. ​SEC filing. The ​compute ​capacity provided ‌includes about 110,000 Nvidia ​GPUS, ​CPUS, memory and other related components.

Investing.com -- Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) shares fell 7% on Friday after the Financial Times reported the company is considering a major equity raise to fund its artificial intelligence infrastructure.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday told reporters that ‌his team is looking into the ‌idea of AI companies giving the American public a ​stake in their firms, adding that he planned to host a meeting with AI executives as soon as next week. "There's ‌something very interesting ⁠about it, where it almost becomes a partnership with the American ⁠public," he told reporters.

Technology stocks tumbled sharply Friday as the Nasdaq headed for its worst week in a year. Nasdaq Inc. shed nearly 2% in afternoon trades, as Nvidia, Micron and Sandisk fell. Tech behemoths like Amazon and Google edged lower.

As markets (^DJI, ^IXIC, ^GSPC) prepare for the public launch of SpaceX (SPAX.PVT) on June 12, should investors be skeptical of these mega-IPOs expected to sweep Wall Street? 9i Capital Group founder and CEO Kevin Thompson cites the circular investing occurring between Big Tech names and these pre-IPO companies — SpaceX, OpenAI (OPAI.PVT), Anthropic (ANTH.PVT). OpenAI and Anthropic have also filed to go public in 2026.

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The iPhone maker has clear advantages to lead in consumer AI, but only if it can finally modernize Siri.

Dow Jones futures fell slightly after hours, along with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures. The May jobs report is on tap before Friday's open. The stock market saw the Dow Jones jump to a record high, aided by lower oil prices and Treasury yields.

Some Polymarket users are betting SpaceX's market cap exceeds $4 trillion by the close of its first trading day, valuing the startup higher than Microsoft.

Broadcom held the line on its AI guidance for its upcoming third quarter on Wednesday night, but the stock still fell 15% on Thursday morning. That counterintuitive outcome sits at the center of KeyBanc Capital Markets analyst John Vinh’s reaction on CNBC’s Squawk Box, where he defended his Overweight rating on Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO) while reiterating ... Wall Street Analyst: Broadcom’s Flat AI Guidance Justified the Selloff, but Nvidia Remains Best-in-Class Chip Play

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Anthropic is joining in on the IPO fray to win tens of billions in capital and likely a valuation in the trillions. This IPO could significantly benefit Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), Salesforce (NYSE:CRM), and Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG). Before we look into how, let’s take a look at the IPO first. Anthropic’s decision for an IPO comes after SpaceX’s decision to ... 3 Stocks Poised to Make Billions from the Anthropic IPO

Four days. That is the gap between Anthropic closing a $65 billion Series H round at a $960 billion post-money valuation and the company confidentially submitting draft IPO paperwork to the SEC, according to Bloomberg Businessweek’s Ed Ludlow. That speed alone tells you something about how AI capital markets are operating right now. In March, ... $960 Billion: Anthropic Beats OpenAI to the IPO Filing in a Race That Could Reshape AI Investing

Investing.com -- Investment bank Macquarie has downgraded Broadcom from Outperform to Neutral, citing growing concerns that key customer Google is increasingly developing its own artificial intelligence (AI) chip capabilities and diversifying suppliers. The firm also cut its 12-month price target on Broadcom by 15% to $437 per share, down from $513.

Investors have multiple ways to get indirect exposure to SpaceX, even before the IPO.

Warren Buffett spent decades telling investors he did not understand technology well enough to own it. Then he bought Apple. Then he tripled down on a search giant that has spent the past two years convincing Wall Street that AI makes it stronger, not weaker. On June 1, Berkshire Hathaway made that ...