SpaceX IPO is Musk ‘referendum,’ say market watchers

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…

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Josh Brown thinks investors want more than index funds

Josh Brown, one of Wall Street’s most recognizable financial advisers, said the rise of passive investing has created demand for a different kind of product: a concentrated portfolio aimed at capturing the market’s biggest winners. The CEO of Ritholtz Wealth Management and CNBC contributor recently launched Porterhouse, a separately managed account named after the premium…

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Tokens or humans? the new corporate trade-off

Artificial intelligence is turning out to be far more expensive than anyone expected, and CFOs at major U.S. companies are now facing a brutal new trade-off: tokens or humans. That was the picture two enterprise AI CEOs at the center of the buildout described to CNBC this week. Their accounts of what’s happening inside the…

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