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The biggest catalyst for markets on Friday is the SpaceX IPO, set to debut on the Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX.
The jump in sales tax receipts in the Louisiana parish provides a new talking point in the debate over the AI construction boom.
The biggest IPOs ever are coming, but historically, this period calls for caution, and these deals, in particular, may need some seasoning.
Elan Microelectronics Corp (TPE:2458) focuses on security and commercial markets while lacking clarity on financial performance and future projections.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is set to make its stock-market debut Friday in the largest IPO ever—and perhaps the most closely watched. SpaceX executives are set to ring the Nasdaq’s opening bell in New York, but shares in buzzy initial public offerings don’t tend to start trading until later in the day. Bankers leading an IPO typically want to match buyers and sellers for about 10% of the shares sold before opening trading to lessen volatility.
By Stella Qiu SYDNEY, June 12 (Reuters) - Asian stocks joined a global rally on Friday on hopes a Middle East peace deal may finally materialise, while the dollar and bond yields dropped and oil
SpaceX has locked in its IPO at $135 per share, raising $75 billion from the sale of 555.56 million shares and valuing the company at $1.77 trillion.
Oppenheimer analysts argued that keeping the two companies separate would better support Elon Musk’s long-term artificial intelligence ambitions.
In the old days, companies went public early to access cash to grow. These days, soon-to-be-public companies are already flush with cash from private finance.
Amazon (AMZN) has spent years establishing one of the most formidable cloud businesses in the world, but the artificial intelligence explosion is requiring every big cloud provider to face a tougher question. No longer is it enough to rent out computational power. Customers are now looking for ...
Adobe (NASDAQ:ADBE) reported record fiscal second-quarter revenue and raised its full-year revenue outlook, while executives outlined a strategic shift toward more aggressive freemium user acquisition across Acrobat, Express and Firefly that is expected to weigh on second-half annual recurring reven
Wall Street geared up for SpaceX's market debut and assessed prospects for an end to US-Iran hostilities.
Wall Street geared up for SpaceX's market debut and assessed prospects for an end to US-Iran hostilities.
US stock futures rose as Wall Street geared up for SpaceX's market debut and welcomed easing tensions between the US and Iran.
US stock futures rose as Wall Street geared up for SpaceX’s market debut and welcomed easing tensions between the US and Iran.
Tracey looks at the big IPOs from Facebook, Tesla, and Alibaba. How'd investors do?

<body><p>STORY: Wall Street's main indexes ended sharply higher on Thursday, with the Dow adding more than 1.8%, the S&P 500 climbing one-and-three-quarters percent and the Nasdaq jumping more than two-and-a-half percent.</p><p>President Donald Trump canceled planned strikes on Iran and said a peace deal with Tehran could come as soon as this weekend.</p><p>While oil prices dropped sharply, Ben McMillan, chief investment officer at IDX Advisors, warned that inflationary and other economic pressures wouldn't immediately subside. </p><p>"It's not a spring where all of a sudden, once everything is signed and everybody agrees to a ceasefire, inflation magically comes down, even if the price of oil does. You know, supply chains have been disrupted, and not just oil, by the way, too, things like fertilizer, things that impact the food supply. And we're starting to see that percolate through the system."</p><p>Feeding inflation worries, data on Thursday showed U.S. producer prices increased more than expected in May, leading to the largest annual gain in over three years.</p><p>:: Oracle</p><p>Among the day's stock moves, shares of Oracle bucked what was otherwise a strong day for tech stocks, plunging 8.5% after the firm projected capital spending plans for fiscal 2027 above Wall Street estimates.</p><p>And shares of Adobe, down more than 6% at the close, plunged further in extended trading, despite the Photoshop maker raising its annual revenue forecast. The company also announced the departure of its CFO only three months after Adobe's CEO said he would step down.</p><p>And SpaceX priced the biggest-ever U.S. IPO at $135 per share, making Elon Musk’s rocket maker one of the world’s most valuable companies. The IPO raised a record $75 billion, valuing the company at nearly $1.8 trillion, a record for an initial offering. Trading is set to begin on Friday.</p></body>
Nvidia has hired veteran lobbyist Bruce Andrews to head government affairs in Washington, D.C., two sources briefed on the matter said on Thursday. Andrews served as chipmaking rival Intel's government affairs chief under former CEO Pat Gelsinger. During the Obama administration, Andrews was a Commerce Department official.
AI jitters and mega IPOs are among the factors prompting violent index moves in recent days. The Nasdaq composite has swung an average of 2.1% over the past five sessions, according to Dow Jones Market Data, compared with its five-year average absolute move of 1%.
Starbucks is on a roll right now. U.S. comparable-store sales jumped 7% last quarter, transactions are increasing across all income groups, and operating income is inflecting for the first time in two years. But behind the momentum, Chairman and CEO Brian Niccol is quietly making moves that ...
By Manya Saini and Niket Nishant June 11 (Reuters) - Few business leaders have been as deeply embedded in popular culture as Elon Musk, the ambitious entrepreneur who has become a central figure in
The Department of Justice reportedly sent subpoenas to some of the biggest American banks. Among those who received the subpoenas were JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing anonymous sources. Jeanine Pirro of the United ...
Throughout the years, the SpaceX CEO and co-founder has shown a preference for secretive suburban compounds—most recently in Texas.
There is rarely a dull day for investors in Elon Musk's companies. Now that the SpaceX IPO is done (secondary market trading will start Friday), thoughts can turn back to the long-term plans Musk might have for his business empire. A merger with Tesla is on the table.
CORRECTIONS The first name of Lynn Bromley, a former Maine state senator, was misspelled as Lynne in some editions Thursday in a U.S. News article about women voters. Oracle’s fourth-quarter cloud-infrastructure revenue rose 93% from a year earlier.
Elon Musk's SpaceX raised the $75 billion it targeted in a hotly awaited IPO on Thursday, selling shares at a fixed price of $135 that valued the space, satellite and AI company at $1.77 trillion. It's definitely going to be a long-term story, and I think it will take time for the stock to find its footing in the public markets.
FedEx built its reputation on speed with overnight packages, reliable routes, and trucks that became part of the daily routine and business districts across the country. Now, the company is trying to make that massive delivery system leaner through its Network 2.0 transformation project to reduce ...
Virgin Galactic stock is a wave of SpaceX IPO momentum sweeps through the sector. But is it already too late to invest in SPCE shares now?