SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell celebrates with family and other SpaceX employees at the Nasdaq Marketsite in in New York after the SpaceX initial public offering on June 12, 2026. Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty Images Days after Elon Musk’s SpaceX made its debut on the Nasdaq, much ink…
A video displays Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, after the company’s initial public offering at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York on June 12, 2026. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shortly before the opening of Nasdaq trading on Friday, Elon Musk stepped in front of a cheerful crowd at SpaceX’s company town in…
CEO Gwen Shotwell and SpaceX executives ring the opening bell at the Nasdaq on June 12th, 2026. Adam Jeffery | CNBC SpaceX shares soared on Friday as trading commenced on the Nasdaq, driving the rocket company’s valuation above $2 trillion. The Elon Musk-led space company’s stock was last trading 23% higher in midday trading to…
Americans have more money invested for retirement in passive S&P 500 Index funds than any other investment. The Vanguard and BlackRock S&P 500 ETFs alone manage nearly $2 trillion in assets, with the Vanguard ETF (VOO) recently passing the $1 trillion mark. But they won’t be managing SpaceX shares any time soon for retail investors…
Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, speaks to members of the media in the Senate Subway at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, May 19, 2026. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is raising concerns about whether recent rule changes at stock indexes cleared the way…
Elon Musk at SpaceX in Brownsville, Texas, May 27, 2025. Marvin Joseph | The Washington Post | Getty Images Friday’s hotly anticipated SpaceX public debut could prove a defining moment for capital markets — and be a “referendum” on Elon Musk’s leadership, according to market watchers. Musk’s eye-watering $1.75 trillion valuation target reflects a price-to-earnings…
SpaceX will debut under the ticker ‘SPCX’ this Friday, and its options will begin trading on Tuesday, June 16th. It’s a quick turnaround that leaves investors a little bit in the lurch. They’ll have little time and a small sample size of activity to judge how the world’s largest IPO will trade day-to-day over the…
Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., arrives for the House Democrats’ caucus meeting in the Capitol on Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018. Bill Clark | CQ-Roll Call Group | Getty Images A group of House Democrats pressed the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in a letter sent late Monday on why the agency has not cracked down on bets…
CUPERTINO, Calif. — Nasdaq brought its market open festivities to Apple’s sprawling Silicon Valley headquarters on Tuesday, the eve of the company’s 50th birthday. From a desk inside Apple Park, the ring-shaped campus that Steve Jobs spent his last years helping design, Tim Cook rang the opening bell and, in the process, ushered in the…
Photo from Horizon Quantum’s listing ceremony at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York City on Friday, March 20, 2026. Quantum computing firms are defying turbulent markets to go public this year, as companies seek to raise funds to capitalize on recent scientific breakthroughs and push the experimental technology closer to commercialization. One such firm, Xanadu…
