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TNB Tech Minute: SpaceX Stock Surges Nearly 20%

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Tech News

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus: Australia’s richest person and mining tycoon Gina Rinehart buys a more-than $1 billion stake in SpaceX. And bitcoin jumps to more than $66,500 after U.S.-Iran deal. Julie Chang hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.0

Chang for the Wall Street Journal. Shares of SpaceX closed up

0:39.8

nearly 20% today. Elon Musk's company debuted on the NASDAQ last week and pulled off the largest

0:46.3

initial public offering ever. In a press release today, SpaceX said it raised $85.7 billion in its IPO.

0:57.3

That's up from the $75 billion that the company initially sold in its public offering on Friday. The additional proceeds come from underwriters

1:02.3

exercising their so-called green shoe option, an over-allotment of more than 83 million additional

1:09.1

shares. Plus, we exclusively report that Australia's richest person, Gina Reinhardt, has acquired a stake

1:16.9

in SpaceX valued at over $1 billion.

1:20.6

This marks the largest non-iron ore investment for her company, Hancock prospecting, which is

1:26.4

one of the world's biggest exporters of the

1:28.4

steelmaking commodity. In email remarks today, Reinhart expressed confidence in Musk and emphasized

1:34.8

the need to keep investing in Western tech and innovation. Reinhart didn't specify the value of the

1:40.8

investment, but a person familiar with it said it was valued at over a billion dollars.

1:46.9

Finally, Bitcoin appears to be benefiting from the U.S.-Iran peace deal. The cryptocurrency jumped to

1:53.2

about $66,500 today, touching its highest level in nearly two weeks. That helped lift shares of

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