SpaceX soars 25% on Wall Street debut making Elon Musk first trillionaire
NEW YORK — The world’s richest man just became its first trillionaire. Shares in Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX soared 25 percent after opening...
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Pedestrians walk in Times Square with screens showing visuals of Elon Musk and SpaceX branding at the Nasdaq MarketSite Exchange in Times Square in New York City, Friday. Elon Musk celebrated the Nasdaq opening bell Friday as SpaceX prepared to start trading publicly and possibly cementing his status as a trillionaire. UPI-YonhapNEW YORK — The world’s richest man just became its first trillionaire.Shares in Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX soared 25 percent after opening for trading at noon Friday, an auspicious start for history's biggest initial public offering and enough to push the net worth of its founder and CEO over the trillion dollar mark.The shares opened at $150, then shot to $168.90 around 12:.50 p.m. ET. That price gave the company a market value of $2.21 trillion.
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