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Wall Street Breakfast

Virgin Galactic soars

Wall Street Breakfast

Seeking Alpha

News, Business, Business News, Investing

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Virgin Galactic (SPCE) targets late June for official launch of commercial service (00:32). Squarespace (SQSP) takes off on deal to buy assets of Google's (GOOG) (GOOGL) domains business (02:15). Intel (INTC) said to be close to deal worth $10.8B in subsidies for German chip plant (01:29).

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0:00.0

Welcome to See King Alpha's Wall Street breakfast, where we cover the top news for investors every morning.

0:07.0

Good morning. Today is Friday, June 16th, and I'm your host Julie Morgan.

0:12.0

Virgin Galactic is soaring following the announcement

0:15.1

that Space Flight Commercial Operations will begin at the end of the month.

0:19.5

Intel is close to a deal that will bring in more than $10 billion in subsidies, and Square Space

0:25.7

is buying the assets of Google domains.

0:29.7

Here's what's making headlines today.

0:31.9

Pre-market Virgin Galactic is up nearly 40%

0:35.0

this after the company announced that it is beginning its

0:38.0

spaceflight commercial operations.

0:40.0

The first flight is scheduled for the window between June 27th and June 30th.

0:45.1

Galactic 1 will be a scientific research mission with three crew members.

0:49.8

The crew is from the Italian Air Force and National Research Council of Italy.

0:54.3

Their mission is to conduct microgravity research.

0:57.6

Virgin Galactic said monthly flights with private astronauts should begin in early August.

1:03.2

Seeking Alpha analyst Ivan Lee recently issued a cautious appraisal of Virgin Galactic.

1:08.9

Lee kept an underweight rating on the stock after considering the company's revenue projection and technology development.

1:15.8

He says the numbers don't seem to add up for at least the next three to four years.

1:20.5

And earlier this year in March, there was a warning placed on Virgin Galactic that says it is at high risk of performing badly.

1:29.0

Intel is reportedly close to a deal with the German government to receive up to $10.8 billion in

1:35.4

subsidies for a new manufacturing plant in the country.

1:39.1

That number was initially $3 billion less.

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