TNB Tech Minute: Space Stocks Get Lifted By SpaceX IPO Hype
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:31.4 | Here's your afternoon TNB Tech Minute for Friday, May 22nd. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal. Stocks of space |
| 0:39.5 | companies are skyrocketing, driven by SpaceX's move toward an initial public offering earlier |
| 0:45.1 | this week. AST Space Mobile closed up about 10%, Virgin Galactic closed up nearly 18%. Shares of spacecraft maker, Firefly Aerospace, closed up over 15%. |
| 0:57.4 | And satellite builder Rocket Lab also closed up about 8%. Firefly went public last summer after guiding |
| 1:04.5 | the first successful private moon landing. Meanwhile, Rocket Lab has fixated on going head-to-head with |
| 1:10.7 | SpaceX, Blue Origin, and other industry powers. |
| 1:14.8 | Lenovo Group recorded its fastest revenue growth in years, driven by strong demand for |
| 1:20.3 | AI-enabled devices and AI infrastructure. The world's largest personal computer maker said |
| 1:26.1 | net profit rose nearly sixfold to $521 million, |
| 1:31.2 | far above analyst estimates per a fax set poll. The company's revenue searched 27% to $21.6 billion |
| 1:38.9 | for the quarter that ended in March. Lenovo has now set its sights on $100 billion in annual revenue, |
| 1:46.2 | a milestone it expects to achieve within two years. Linobo remained the world's leading PC |
| 1:51.5 | maker with a 25% market share, but faces a global memory chip shortage. Shares are up nearly 20%. |
| 1:59.9 | And AI is already boosting productivity gains in very specific, |
| 2:05.1 | well-defined tasks, but these increases have yet to scale sharply across the whole economy. That's |
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