is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The SpaceX IPO is here, and it’s more than just an historic public offering that could make Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. It a...
is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The SpaceX IPO is here, and it’s more than just an historic public offering that could make Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. It also reveals more ways in which Elon Musk’s companies interact and overlap with each other, shuffling money around in ways that are often difficult to keep track of. This is evident in ways that are both obvious and less so. A CTRL-F search for “Tesla” yields 87 results, xAI is mentioned 356 times, and X 267 times. Even the Boring Company (7 times) and Neuralink (3) get a few mentions. Throughout its 330 pages of rocket launches and interplanetary wishes, you can trace the network of ways in which Musk’s companies deal with each other. It’s also evident in the ways Musk’s companies are shareholders in other Musk companies, further intertwining their fates in the process. Based on the Form S-1 filing, Tesla owns nearly 19 million shares of SpaceX’s Class A common stock, which is less than 1 percent of the total outstanding stock. Tesla’s stake in xAI was converted to SpaceX shares after Elon Musk merged his AI company with his space company in February. The IPO also reveals SpaceX bought $131 million worth of Cybertrucks “at manufacturer’s suggested retail price from Tesla.” A Bloomberg report earlier this year suggested that SpaceX bought 1,279 Cybertrucks in the fourth quarter of 2025, but the IPO suggests it has probably acquired a few more than that. As Electrek notes, without these purchases, Cybertruck registration numbers likely would have gone down year over year. Tesla’s Megapacks, the company’s giant stationary storage batteries, are used to stabilize SpaceX’s Colossus I and II data centers in Memphis, TN, during peak demand. The rocket company purchased $697 millio...
JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon said the Wall Street giant will likely hire more artificial intelligence specialists and fewer traditional bankers as the adoption of the technology accelerates. “I think it will reduce our jobs down the road,” Dimon said in a Bloomberg Television interview at the bank’s China Summit in Shanghai. “There will be all different types of jobs, a...
JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon said the Wall Street giant will likely hire more artificial intelligence specialists and fewer traditional bankers as the adoption of the technology accelerates. “I think it will reduce our jobs down the road,” Dimon said in a Bloomberg Television interview at the bank’s China Summit in Shanghai. “There will be all different types of jobs, and I think we will be hiring more AI people and fewer bankers in certain categories, and it will make them more productive.” Dimon’s comments underscore a broader industry pivot toward automation that is reshaping the global financial workforce. As AI spreads across Wall Street, lenders are racing to boost productivity and streamline operations while navigating the potential political and social backlash triggered by job cuts. Unlike some of his banking peers, Dimon struck a measured tone, arguing that the AI-driven transition can largely be managed through natural turnover rather than sweeping layoffs. Even as AI alters every tier of employment, moving beyond back-office tasks into higher-value functions, Dimon said it will also create new roles, particularly in client-facing areas. With an annual attrition rate of roughly 10%, or about 25,000 to 30,000 departures a year, JPMorgan has the flexibility to retrain staff, redeploy workers, or offer early retirement packages, Dimon said. Earlier this week, Standard Chartered Plc CEO Bill Winters sparked debate by stating the emerging markets lender is replacing “lower-value human capital” with technology to eliminate 8,000 support roles over the next four years. That followed remarks from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. President John Waldron , who recently described traditional back-office operations as a “human assembly line” ripe for automation. HSBC Holdings Plc CEO Georges Elhedery also weighed in this week, warning that AI will “destroy” certain roles while creating others, and urged employees to adapt to the technological shift...
Nvidia posted another blowout quarter. Shares had run sharply higher ahead of the report, and fell post-earnings. The Nvidia logo is displayed on a smartphone screen placed on a reflective surface onto which the company's logo is projected. (Photo by Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading.....
Nvidia posted another blowout quarter. Shares had run sharply higher ahead of the report, and fell post-earnings. The Nvidia logo is displayed on a smartphone screen placed on a reflective surface onto which the company's logo is projected. (Photo by Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... NVDA reported Q1 revenue and profit above expectations, and its data center revenue nearly doubled. Nvidia said it's pushing harder into the CPU market, a market which it believes is a $200 billion revenue opportunity. “We have strategically secured inventory and capacity to meet demand beyond the next several quarters,” CFO Colette Kress said. Nvidia shares rose 0.2% after a volatile start to premarket trading on Thursday. The stock had rallied sharply in recent weeks, suggesting investors had already priced in a strong report, limiting the scope for further gains similar to the muted next-day reactions following Nvidia’s previous quarterly earnings. Still, analysts responded with optimistic commentary around Nvidia's performance, highlighting various growth levers from sustained AI chip demand to the company’s push in the CPU market as catalysts for the near-term stock performance. Read Next Loading... Loading... “Another robust eye popping quarter from Nvidia. Demand continues to accelerate well beyond Street expectations. Hugely important print and guide for Godfather of AI Jensen,” WedBush analyst Dan Ives said on X. “Ripple impacts across the tech world,” he forecast. NVDA’s Q1 Recap Nvidia’s fiscal first quarter revenue increased 85% to $81.62 billion, and adjusted earnings came in at $1.87 per share. Analysts had expected $78.86 billion in revenue and a $1.76. per share profit. Nvidia also disclosed $30 billion worth of cloud computing agreements, up sequentially from $27 billion. The company incr...
PM Images/DigitalVision via Getty Images Rithm Capital ( RITM ) is making rapid progress in growing its fee-generating segments, such as asset management and third-party investment services, while simultaneously capitalizing on favorable tailwinds in its mortgage investment business. The REIT has made it a strategic priority in the last several years to become a more diversified, multi-cylinder in...
PM Images/DigitalVision via Getty Images Rithm Capital ( RITM ) is making rapid progress in growing its fee-generating segments, such as asset management and third-party investment services, while simultaneously capitalizing on favorable tailwinds in its mortgage investment business. The REIT has made it a strategic priority in the last several years to become a more diversified, multi-cylinder investment platform, and the quality of its earnings remains high... allowing Rithm Capital to generate more than 200% dividend coverage in the last quarter. The hybrid mortgage REIT, which has assembled a large portfolio of different mortgage and non-mortgage investments, is trading at a discount to book value, which I feel is not justified given the REIT's strong distributable earnings performance and favorable interest rate environment that benefits Rithm Capital's mortgage servicing rights holding. Seeking Alpha Previous Rating I rated shares of Rithm Capital a 'Strong Buy' in January 2025 -- 296% Coverage, Soaring Earnings, 16% BV Discount -- because I liked the investment firm's strategy of pivoting away from its core mortgage investment market and broadening its strategic positioning by incorporating non-mortgage assets into its portfolio. In Q1'26, Rithm Capital continued to excel in core mortgage investments as well as asset management services, and I see additional acquisitions, especially in the third-party asset management market, as likely targets for Rithm Capital in 2026 and beyond. Higher-for-longer Rate Environment Benefits Rithm Capital's Core MSR Assets As I pointed out previously, Rithm Capital is growing its asset management business quickly: the REIT added billions of assets under management in the last three years in its third-party asset management division and has stemmed a number of acquisitions here lately, including Crestline Management... which I covered here . Because of Rithm Capital's acquisitions of Sculptor Management in 2023 and Crestline Ma...
The Reserve Bank of India is considering all of its available options to stabilize the rupee, including an interest rate hike, more currency swaps and raising dollars from investors overseas, according to people familiar with the matter. Top officials at the RBI, including Governor Sanjay Malhotra , have held a series of internal meetings to discuss the possible course of actions available after t...
The Reserve Bank of India is considering all of its available options to stabilize the rupee, including an interest rate hike, more currency swaps and raising dollars from investors overseas, according to people familiar with the matter. Top officials at the RBI, including Governor Sanjay Malhotra , have held a series of internal meetings to discuss the possible course of actions available after the rupee plunged to a fresh low of almost 97 to a dollar this week, the people said, asking not to be identified because the discussions are private. One of the options on the table is raising interest rates, one of the people said. The next scheduled monetary policy decision is on June 5, although the RBI has previously made an out-of-cycle adjustment in May 2022. Other measures include raising dollars overseas through a deposit scheme for non-resident Indians and selling a sovereign dollar bond, another person said. The latter would be decided by the government, the person said. The measures under consideration mirror some of those taken during the 2013 taper tantrum period. India provided a deposit scheme for non-residents through local banks at the time to spur foreign currency inflows. The RBI estimates the deposit schemes could draw as much as $50 billion this time around, according to one of the people, compared with about $30 billion previously. There is an increasing recognition among policymakers that the rupee is tumbling faster than anticipated, according to the people, who are familiar with the RBI’s thinking. Policymakers are of the opinion that India’s economic fundamentals remain strong and the banking system is sound, but that strength is not being reflected in the exchange rate, they said. The RBI didn’t respond to an email seeking further information. The top priority for the central bank now is to stop the depreciation, and the RBI is ready to do whatever it takes to achieve that, one of the people said. Raising borrowing costs would help spur foreign bo...