
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Today is the day SpaceX begins trading on public markets after raising around $75 billion in one of the largest listings on record, valuing the company at nearly $1.8 trillion.
Broader markets are also edging higher, with investors weighing whether enthusiasm around SpaceX is part of a wider surge linked to major AI-related listings still to come.
There is also growing focus on the personal implications of the listing. The scale of the valuation raises the possibility of Elon Musk entering the trillion-dollar club, prompting questions about what that means in practice
Presenter: Leanna Byrne
By BBC World Service4.3
252252 ratings
Today is the day SpaceX begins trading on public markets after raising around $75 billion in one of the largest listings on record, valuing the company at nearly $1.8 trillion.
Broader markets are also edging higher, with investors weighing whether enthusiasm around SpaceX is part of a wider surge linked to major AI-related listings still to come.
There is also growing focus on the personal implications of the listing. The scale of the valuation raises the possibility of Elon Musk entering the trillion-dollar club, prompting questions about what that means in practice
Presenter: Leanna Byrne

7,639 Listeners

4,137 Listeners

519 Listeners

1,046 Listeners

420 Listeners

5,520 Listeners

1,799 Listeners

2,110 Listeners

358 Listeners

50 Listeners

217 Listeners

96 Listeners

360 Listeners

233 Listeners

646 Listeners

225 Listeners

2,534 Listeners

307 Listeners

3,177 Listeners

1,072 Listeners

65 Listeners

814 Listeners

555 Listeners

643 Listeners

386 Listeners

239 Listeners

56 Listeners

139 Listeners

75 Listeners

74 Listeners