Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks at Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth, Texas facility on Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, as part of his “Arsenal of Freedom” industry tour. Amanda McCoy | Fort Worth Star-telegram | Tribune News Service | Getty Images Lobbying efforts to kill a proposed ban on some defense contractors buying back their own stock…
The CEOs of Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Honeywell arrived at the White House on Wednesday for a meeting with President Donald Trump, as the administration presses major defense contractors to ramp up weapons production amid concerns about U.S. missile and munitions stockpiles. The meeting comes after U.S. military operations in Iran and amid ongoing peace…
SpaceX Executives ring the Closing Bell at the Nasdaq on the debut of their IPO on June 12th, 2026. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Following the astronomical success of the SpaceX IPO — raising $85.7 billion, valuing the newly public company in the trillions, and minting Elon Musk as the world’s first trillionaire — what many…
Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts and ranking member of Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, left, and Senator Jack Reed, a Democrat from Rhode Island, speak during a confirmation hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. Eric Lee | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Senate Armed Services Committee approved…
SpaceX has been fast-tracked to enter several major stock market indexes and that could eventually ground its stock performance in the broader fundamentals of the tech sector. But before SpaceX goes into those indexes in coming weeks, market forces – amplified by derivative securities based on the stock and maneuvers by big-money investors – could…
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…
SpaceX didn’t just rewrite the playbook for aerospace and defense, it helped birth a new space economy. Now Elon Musk’s company is tackling a different type of moonshot: going public. “I wasn’t sure we would go public,” SpaceX Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell told CNBC in an exclusive interview, just before the company started its…
SpaceX’s Super Heavy booster is seen on the launch pad, as Starship is prepared to be placed on top, at the company’s Boca Chica complex, ahead of Starship’s eighth test flight which is targeted for March 3, from Starbase, near Brownsville, Texas, U.S. March 2, 2025. Kaylee Greenlee | Reuters For nearly two decades, some…
As seen from Canaveral National Seashore, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 60 Starlink satellites launches from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center on October 6, 2020 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. This is the 13th batch of satellites placed into orbit by SpaceX as part of a constellation designed to provide broadband internet service…
SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE – MAY 29: Police officers stand on patrol during the 23rd IISS Shangri-La Dialogue at the Shangri-La Hotel on May 29, 2026 in Singapore. Senior defence officials and military leaders from across the Asia-Pacific and beyond convene at the Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore for the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Shangri-La Dialogue,…
