Leopold Aschenbrenner, the Wall Street wunderkind whose hedge fund imploded in late July, placed huge bets on two AI stocks in the lead-up to the disaster. Aschenbrenner’s firm, Situational Awareness, owned a $5.7 billion stake in SanDisk and a $5.6 billion stake in Micron at the end of June, its quarterly portfolio update revealed on
SpaceX’s stock could come under pressure again as more early investors gain the freedom to cash in their stakes, said research analyst and “Prof G Markets” podcast co-host Ed Elson. Elson discussed the risks surrounding SpaceX’s mega IPO in June during an episode of Kara Swisher’s “On” podcast, released on Thursday. He said that although
SpaceX stock rose on Monday to reclaim an important milestone: its $135 IPO price. The stock jumped back above that threshold on Monday, rising to close 4% higher at $138.74 after struggling to mount a decisive gain early in the session. Shares are up more than 25% in August, and a 15% rally on Friday
An unusual boost is showing up in some corporate earnings this summer: tariff refunds. Nintendo became the latest beneficiary of the boost on Thursday, reporting net profit of 147.4 billion Japanese yen, or $931 million, for the quarter ending June, up 54% from a year earlier and handily beating analyst expectations of 77.8 billion yen.
SpaceX stock isn’t just falling. It’s hitting every branch on the way down. After surging to a $2.6 trillion valuation on its third day of public trading, SpaceX stock has tumbled 46%, wiping out more than $1.2 trillion of that in the process. The initial wave of selling came as investors balked at lofty valuations.
As leveraged exchange-traded funds draw growing scrutiny, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is pointing to a broader risk across markets. “Market leverage is pretty high,” Dimon told CNBC in an interview aired on Wednesday. “When you have that, you do have a higher chance that something will disrupt the market in a quick way and
