Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Public.com presents The Rundown, your daily market update in under 10 minutes. My name is Zaid Admani, and today is Thursday, April 2nd. In today's episode, we'll tell you why oil is surging following Trump's speech last night. We'll also break down SpaceX's confidential IPO filing and take a look at Tesla's Q1 delivery numbers. Then stick around to the end of the show for some more space talk.
We got a great show for you today. Let's go. Stocks continued to rally on Wednesday with the S&P jumping 0.7% and the NASDAQ jumped 1.2%, capping the best two-day stretch for the NASDAQ since May of last year. The rally yesterday was driven by two things. First, it was strong economic data.
Retail sales came in above expectations of 0.6% in February, which gave investors more confidence that the consumer is still holding up. Now, to be fair, this data was before oil prices surged, so the March retail sales data will be a lot more interesting.
Chapter 2: Why did oil prices surge after Trump's speech?
Speaking of oil, the second reason for the rally yesterday was investor optimism that the Iran war was winding down. Oil actually fell below $100 a barrel for the first time in a week, and that got everyone excited. Well, last night, a lot of that excitement went away after President Trump's speech regarding the Iran war.
Instead of laying out a path for a ceasefire or a de-escalation, Trump said the US would continue to hit Iran extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. More importantly, he didn't offer any real plan for reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Not what the market wanted to hear. So following that speech, oil prices went higher and stocks moved lower.
I think investors spent the last couple of days excited about a potential end to the war. But we got a quick reminder last night that this is far from over. So, yeah, I think we could be in for a pretty volatile day of trading today, especially because the market is closed tomorrow for Good Friday.
Now, unless we get a massive sell-off, stocks should end the week in the green for the first time in five weeks, but we'll see what happens. Now, as a reminder, we're not gonna have a show tomorrow because the market is closed, but we'll still be posting a deep dive on Saturday and then an interview on Sunday. This week, we talked to the CEO of Kava. We already recorded that conversation.
It was great. So keep an eye on your podcast feed for that. Let's run through some headlines, starting with SpaceX. SpaceX officially filed confidential IPO paperwork with the SEC yesterday. Now, according to multiple reports and rumors, SpaceX is looking to raise between 40 and 75 billion dollars, which would be a record amount and value the company at one point seven five trillion dollars.
Now to put this into context, the current IPO record is Saudi Aramco, which happened back in 2019. They raised $29 billion. So SpaceX is looking to potentially double that. The hype around this IPO has been insane because for one, space is a pretty sexy industry, especially right now. And SpaceX is the dominant player in that space, no pun intended.
SpaceX accounts for five of every six rocket launches in the U.S., But beyond just launching rockets, SpaceX also has Starlink, which provides satellite internet service at incredible speeds. Starlink already has over a million customers and generates about $8 billion in revenue in 2024 alone. And then on top of all that, you have the AI factor.
Because remember, SpaceX merged with XAI back in February. And while XAI seems to be falling behind the other AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, it'll still give investors exposure to the AI story. And then who knows, maybe the AI data centers and space thing actually happens, and then this will give SpaceX a big leg up on that.
Now, since this was a confidential filing, we don't get to see the actual financials yet. That's kind of a bummer, but we're gonna have to wait a little while longer, but not too much though, because rumors are that Elon wants to list shares as early as June. You know, given Elon's history, I wouldn't be surprised if he aims for June 9th.
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