Michael Thompson
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It shows how many variables they're trying to take into account, right?
No, absolutely.
And it's well worth a listen today as well to Fear and Greed the week ahead with our resident economist, Stephen Koukoulis, who weighs in on all of this, what he thinks the next move from the Reserve Bank will be.
It's coming up after the show, so stick around for that.
Anyone interested, I suspect, Sean, will now know that the SpaceX listing on Wall Street on Saturday morning Australian time was a...
sizable success, with shares immediately trading higher than the offer price, pushing up the valuation by 19%.
That meant that the value of the Rocket AI and social media company pushed to $2.1 trillion US dollars.
And Elon Musk's total worth, including Tesla and everything else that he has, and there's a few assets in there, that went to $1.1 trillion US dollars.
Crazy.
Because for it to be part of the S&P 500, it actually does need to be making money for a certain number of quarters, doesn't it?
I know that certain other indices have kind of changed the rules.
Yeah, it's fascinating.
While we're on the subject of barely believable tech stories, Sean, Anthropic has suspended its latest state-of-the-art AI model after the US government directed the company to limit access for all foreign nationals, citing national security concerns.
Okay.
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