The stock market in New York will open at 9.30 a.m. local time as usual today and then, a few hours later, shares in Elon Musk’s SpaceX will begin trading publicly, starting at an offer price of $135 per share.
At a value of $1.8 trillion, the SpaceX offering will be the biggest IPO of all time.
The event will be especially nerve-wracking for one group of investors: the doctors, lawyers, dentists, entrepreneurs, and other high-net-worth individuals who privately bought shares on the shadowy “secondary” market back when SpaceX’s stock consisted only of private equity. When the insider lockup period ends, they will find out whether they hit the jackpot or were taken in by a scam, reports Fortune’s Allie Garfinkle.
Because secondary shares are traded via private contracts, often in secret, buyers are vulnerable to fraud. They won’t know if the paper contracts they bought are worth the paper they’re written on until it comes time to try to sell them. It’s not a question of whether fraud will be uncovered when SpaceX IPOs; it’s a question of how much fraud will be uncovered.
“How many people think that they have bought into SpaceX, but they’re actually just funding some dude’s coke habit in Miami? The number is not zero,” said Anduril cofounder Matt Grimm, when he spoke to Fortune a few months ago.
“In some cases, they literally are being scammed.”
The IPO has raised $75 billion, per the FT, and the total funds raised based on the portion of the stock being offered could hit $86 billion. Demand for the shares was three times the amount on offer.
Goldman Sachs is the lead bank on the IPO and it got there by agreeing to take one of the lowest fees on record, a “gross spread” of just 0.75%, Fortune’s Shawn Tully reports. The bank will nonetheless get a chunk of the estimated $646 million in fees, and thus likely capture the largest dollar amount.
The problem with AI data centers is that they’re huge. You need places to put them. And people generally don’t want to be anywhere near them because they aren’t pretty, they use too much water and jack up your electricity bills. Elon Musk thinks he has a solution to that: use SpaceX rockets to put AI datacenters in space where they can be powered by solar cells and be a bother to no one.
But is this economically feasible? Yes, according to ARK Invest, Cathie Wood’s tech-focused investment fund. As the cost of reusable rockets declines, it will eventually fall below the cost of building data centers on Earth, according to this ARK chart:
Markets in Asia and Europe rose strongly this morning on headlines that the U.S.-Iran conflict might be coming to an end. U.S. futures were up too.
President Trump has claimed he has a 14-point “memorandum of understanding” to end the war with Iran, White House sources told Axios. The document calls for the Strait of Hormuz to be reopened and for sanctions on Iran to be ended as long as Iran complies with further terms. U.S. troops would be withdrawn. Talks on Iran’s nuclear ambitions would be pushed off into the future.
Trump cancelled last night’s planned airstrikes, saying, “Discussions and final points have been, in both concept and great detail, approved by all parties involved … Time and place of the signing to be announced shortly.” He told a rally in Georgia, “We ended the war with Iran today.”
Crucially, Iranian media also reported on the existence of the document. However, Iranian officials said this morning that the deal has not been finalized.
The economic impact of the World Cup will be “material,” according to Bank of America’s Stephen Juneau. “It could add six-tenths to U.S. GDP and four-tenths to World GDP. Indeed, we may have already seen some of the positive effects in the May jobs report. The upshot is that the tournament is another tailwind for the U.S. economy and another reason to expect inflation to be more persistent in the near-term,” he said in a note.
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The annual growth in U.S. consumer card spending, according to David Tinsley and his colleagues at Bank of America. That’s “the strongest growth in nearly four years, according to Bank of America internal card data. Moreover, growth isn't just gasoline-driven—underlying spending remains firm across both goods and services,” they say.
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In a string of recent sporting events watched by President Trump, the home team has taken a beating, according to the AP. The New York Knicks, after two straight wins in the NBA finals against the San Antonio Spurs, lost at home 115-111 on Monday as Trump looked on from a luxury suite at Madison Square Garden.
The MLB’s Washington Nationals lost Game 5 of the World Series to the Houston Astros 7-1 when Trump was there. In November, the president was on hand as the NFL’s Washington Commanders hosted the Detroit Lions, and the visitors romped 44-22. And he was front and center at Bethpage Black when Europe topped the U.S. golf team in last fall’s Ryder Cup.
That’s going to be a problem for the U.S. soccer team if the president decides to spectate at one of their World Cup matches …
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