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SpaceX Has Shed $400 Billion in Market Value Since Its IPO-Day Close
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Vietnam Needs $200 Billion. Its Banks Can't Supply It.
Techcombank CEO Jens Lottner says Vietnam's domestic deposit base is structurally too small to finance the country's infrastructure ambitions — and that foreign capital will have to fill the gap.
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SpaceX at $1.25 Trillion: The Lieutenants Behind Musk's Expanding Empire
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OpenAI's 2025 Financials Are Drawing Scrutiny—and the Numbers Are Not Flattering
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Michael Burry Says He's Tempted to Short SpaceX — Then Passes
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TIAA's $1.5 Trillion Bet on Retirement Income
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Underwriting commissions on a landmark IPO are only the opening act. The secondary market, lending, and wealth management business that follows can dwarf the initial fee.
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Two Mayors, One $10 Billion Data Center, and a Texas Town With No Say
When a megaproject lands on the municipal boundary, the politics of infrastructure spending get very local, very fast.
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OpenAI and Nvidia Are Paying Trump's $100,000 H-1B Fee. Most of Big Tech Is Not.
Frontier AI firms are absorbing a steep new visa surcharge to secure specialized talent. Larger incumbents are pulling back applications — a divergence that reveals how differently companies are pricing the cost of AI expertise.
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Nasdaq Rewrote Its Rulebook. Your Retirement Account May Already Feel It.
A quiet rule change at Nasdaq could fast-track companies like SpaceX into the Nasdaq 100 — and by extension, into the index funds sitting inside millions of 401(k) plans.
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When SpaceX starts trading, some 'shareholders' will discover they own nothing at all
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SpaceX Is About to Make History—and 80% of VCs Won't See a Dime of It
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