2026-06-12
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Today's the day Elon Musk could become a trillionaire, its world business expressed from the BBC World Service.
I'm Liana Byrne.
As people buy up SpaceX stocks, we ask what are they really buying
and what will the company's public status mean for Musk himself?
Today is the day.
SpaceX will start trading in public markets after raising about $75 billion,
valuing the company at nearly $1.8 trillion.
So what is it like in New York today ahead of the shares trading?
Our North America business correspondent Michelle Flurry is outside
the Nasdaq stock exchange in Times Square in midtown Manhattan.
Michelle, what is going on there?
Well, it was quite a scene earlier.