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Good evening and welcome to Markets Desk, your end-of-week wrap on the stories moving markets and the world.
The biggest story in capital markets right now is SpaceX, where sources say Elon Musk's rocket and satellite giant is targeting an IPO pricing as soon as June eleventh, with shares set to debut on the Nasdaq the following day under the ticker SPCX. The company, which recently folded in Musk's AI venture, is being called by some investors the deepest competitive moat in the market today, and enthusiasm among institutional buyers is running extraordinarily high ahead of what would be the largest public offering in history.
Shifting to trade and geopolitics, the Trump-Xi summit wrapped Friday with Taiwan front and center. President Trump had flagged arms sales to the island as a core agenda item, and the outcome of those discussions carries significant weight for semiconductor supply chains, defense contractors, and the broader trajectory of US-China relations heading into the second half of the year.
And on the commodity side, live cattle futures closed sharply higher Friday, up as much as two dollars and five cents across the board, with June contracts finishing five dollars better on the week. The rally was underpinned by a firm cash market, with southern trades printing between two hundred sixty and two hundred sixty-five dollars live, reflecting tight supplies and steady packer demand.
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