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SK Hynix’s US Nasdaq listing aims to raise about $28bn, with underwriters set to collect roughly $140m in fees, potentially making it one of Wall Street’s largest public-offering windfalls as demand for memory chips from AI data-centres drives the market.
San Francisco’s housing market is in a hyper-bidding phase, with 144 homes selling for at least $1 million over asking in the first half of 2026 and May averages about 25% over asking, as buyers rush to secure properties ahead of AI/tech IPOs and lockups. Limited inventory, rising rents, and strong demand in luxury and downtown condos show the market heat shifting from Silicon Valley to San Francisco.
Milan-based Bending Spoons, owner of Vimeo and Eventbrite, priced its Nasdaq IPO at $29 and raised $1.68 billion in an $18.4 billion offering, sending the stock up about 40% and turning the co-founders into billionaires. The company has pursued aggressive acquisitions (including Vimeo in 2025 and Eventbrite this year), with more targets named and a revenue of $1.31 billion in 2025 against 2023’s $387 million. While marketed as a software-sector bellwether, its aggressive transformations have drawn scrutiny over potential large job cuts as it seeks to sustainably grow earnings.
Direxion CEO Douglas Yones says demand for Elon Musk–linked investments is expanding from Tesla to SpaceX as the space company begins trading publicly, with Direxion launching the 2x levered SpaceX ETF LOFF to give investors a leveraged Musk exposure. The move follows the Tesla-led mania in Musk-era investments and signals growing interest from both retail and institutional buyers, suggesting SpaceX could extend the “all things Elon” trade beyond electric vehicles.
AI- and SpaceX-led IPOs could create about 12,000 new multi-millionaires in Silicon Valley, even as rising housing costs and job-security worries spark anxiety about the tech boom’s next phase.
Morningstar’s full note, cited by Alphaville, argues SpaceX’s $135 per-share IPO is likely overvalued: fair value around $63 a share (about a 53% discount), an addressable market of roughly $129bn instead of $1.6tn claimed, and a moonshot scenario of up to $1.97tn with only a 7% probability; Starlink’s market is also smaller than SpaceX’s claim. The piece also notes the challenge of independent research when 23 banks are involved in an IPO.
Nasdaq slips about 1% in volatile trading as AI-linked stocks and chipmakers pull back ahead of SpaceX’s IPO, with intraday losses up to 3.7%. Dell fell 4.8% and the Philadelphia Semiconductor index dropped around 1.9% even as the S&P 500 dipped modestly, highlighting a rotation into defensives as volatility rises and investors digest big AI spending and looming mega-IPOs from Alphabet, Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic, plus SpaceX’s potential listing.
Rob Arnott argues SpaceX’s mega-IPO would not break capital markets but would stress them, potentially widening the valuation gap between index constituents and non-members. While index funds would absorb the stock under float-based rules, such mega-IPOs could still trigger sizable inflows and entrench the advantages of benchmark membership—leaving long-run returns more favorable for non-members if their cash-flow growth overtakes that of the giants.
Stock futures slipped about 0.2% Sunday after reports that Iran fired missiles at Israel, threatening a fragile ceasefire and following a week of sharp losses in tech-heavy indexes. Traders also await inflation data (CPI and PPI) and Elon Musk’s SpaceX IPO, amid concerns that higher financing costs in a high-rate environment could weigh on companies and sentiment move.
OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX are positioning themselves for large public debuts as AI-driven growth draws investor interest, signaling a shift in how AI firms fund expansion and how markets value their potential and risks.
The AI investment boom is driving massive new share issuances from SpaceX, Alphabet, OpenAI and PE-backed firms, pulling cash from stock-market investors and corporate coffers and channeling it into the real economy—funding data centers, factories, and jobs. This boosts near-term GDP and activity but reinforces inflationary pressures as high valuations persist and share buybacks lag behind new issuances.
Alphabet plans to raise up to $80 billion through new equity offerings—$40 billion in fresh stock, $30 billion in bank-backed underwritten shares with convertible preferred stock, and $10 billion from Berkshire Hathaway—to turbocharge its AI hardware push (TPUs), a move that could influence demand for OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX IPOs.
Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, filed confidential paperwork with the SEC to go public, placing it among a wave of trillion-dollar tech debuts this year and signaling continued investor demand for AI.
SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic are lining up blockbuster flotations that could redefine the AI boom, with SpaceX targeting about $75bn in proceeds at a roughly $1.75tn valuation and OpenAI and Anthropic pursuing multi-hundred‑billion valuations as they burn cash while scaling. Backers say enormous pools of capital are ready to absorb large listings, but investors may push back against steep losses and uncertain paths to profitability as the trio’s private-growth dynamics meet public-market scrutiny.
SpaceX's upcoming IPO could hand hedge fund D1 Capital Partners about $20 billion at a $1.75 trillion valuation, with Darsana Capital Partners poised for roughly $15 billion; the windfall underscores how hedge funds and other private-market investors are increasingly positioned to reap big returns from private companies before IPOs.