‘Editor’s Picks’ Podcast (March 25, 2024): A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, as the death toll climbs in Israel’s war on Gaza, we argue that the country looks deeply vulnerable. Plus, we consider Britain as an unexpected beacon of immigration. And finally, as Elon Musk’s Starship reaches space, we examine SpaceX’s approach to rocket development.
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Finance Preview: Barron’s Magazine – May 22, 2023
BARRON’S MAGAZINE – MAY 22, 2023 ISSUE
10 Stocks to Play a Resurgent Energy Sector, From Our Roundtable Experts
Our energy roundtable predicts higher crude prices as global demand grows faster than supply. What’s ahead for U.S. shale, the majors, and the energy transition.
ILLUSTRATION BY MICHAEL HOUTZ
Goldman Sachs Is Evolving. David Solomon on the Next Chapter.
The CEO sat down with Barron’s to discuss his critics’ complaints, the challenging climate for banking, his growth ambitions, and DJing side gig.Long read
Forget the Bud Light Mess. BUD Stock Is a Buy.
The controversy over Bud Light’s transgender promotion obscures Anheuser-Busch InBev’s push to boost global sales and revenue growth
The 5 Stocks That Rule This Market—and Make Investors Nervous
Al Root
UP AND DOWN WALL STREET
The Market Shrugs off Doomsday Scenarios. It Just Might Be Right.
Ben Levisohn
THE ECONOMY
Why a Fed Hike Is Still on the Table for June
Megan Cassella
Finance Preview: Barron’s Magazine – May 15, 2023
BARRON’S MAGAZINE – MAY 15, 2023 ISSUE
How a SpaceX IPO Could End Musk’s Uncomfortable Tesla-Twitter Dance
A Starlink IPO could raise billions of dollars and mean less selling of Tesla in the years ahead.
The New Bank Landscape—and How to Invest Amid the Turmoil
Lenders face steep economic hurdles and stiffer regulations. How to invest as the industry reshapes itself.
Space Could Be a Trillion-Dollar Business. Here Are the Stocks to Play It.
Rocket Lab, Planet Labs, and other companies are high-risk bets on taking business to the final frontier.
Satellite Internet: SpaceX Battles China In Space
SpaceX has more than 1,000 satellites beaming high-speed internet to Earth, but China promises to offer higher speeds with the launch of what it calls the world’s first 6G satellite. Here’s how both are on a quest to build powerful internet networks in space. Photo illustration: Sharon Shi
Internet Service: Spacex’s ‘Starlink’ Explained (Video)
SpaceX’s broadband satellite internet, Starlink, is still in beta, but already has over 10,000 customers. The fledgling service is expected to be a cash cow for SpaceX, bringing in as much as $30 billion a year — more than 10 times the annual revenue of its existing rocket business. This revenue will be used to fuel Elon Musk’s ultimate goal of building a colony on Mars. Eventually, Starlink may even keep us connected on the Red Planet.
Video timeline: 00:00 – Introduction 02:24 – Understanding Starlink 07:15 – SpaceX’s golden ticket 10:05 – Challenges 16:12 – Future of Starlink
Analysis: Will Elon Musk’s ‘Starlink’ Improve Rural Internet Service? (Video)
SpaceX’s new Starlink satellite internet service is being touted as a rural internet game changer. WSJ spent time with a few beta testers in a very remote area of Washington state to see if it’s truly the solution to the global broadband gap. Photo Illustration: Laura Kammermann
Space Travel: NASA Seeks Water On The Moon To Fuel Missions (WSJ Video)
NASA is partnering with SpaceX, Blue Origin and others to search for water on the moon. Water is the foundation for rocket propellant, which could supply refueling stations in the cosmos and make Mars trips cheaper. Photo illustration: Crystal Tai
Space Travel: Japanese Billionaire Looking For 8 Moon Mission Passengers
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa launched a search for eight people to join him as the first private passengers on a trip around the moon with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
Technology: ‘How SpaceX Makes Money’ (Video)
As side hustles go, Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX is really quite something. Entirely separate from the humdrum day job at Tesla, where his only real challenge is weaning humanity off the internal combustion engine, Musk’s multi-billion dollar SpaceX operation sets itself no less a target than bringing down the cost of space travel and ultimately helping mankind colonise Mars.
Spoiler alert – firing gigantic rockets into space every other week is not a cheap undertaking. And while there’s no question Elon Musk has a few bucks to his name, his pockets aren’t bottomless. Somehow, all those dazzling launches – and landings – need to pay for themselves. So strap in and get ready for ignition sequence, while we investigate today’s burning question – how does SpaceX make money?
In October this year, influential investment bank Morgan Stanley went on record saying it believed SpaceX would very soon be worth a cool 100 billion dollars.
Video Interview: Elon Musk On Tesla & The Future Of Innovation
Watch Elon Musk at the WSJ CEO Council Summit talk about future plans for Tesla and SpaceX. Musk also reveals why he moved to Texas and shares his advice for business leaders.
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