BLAST-OFF: Elon Looks to Army of Loyalists to Help Make Him Trillionaire The SpaceX IPO is expected to set records Friday and mark a new pinnacle in Wall Street’s retail revolution... wsj.com/articles/musk-spacex… THE RED FLAGS... Say what you like about Elon Musk, but you have to give him credit for his vision and his chutzpah. The self-appointed technoking, last year’s supposed U.S. budget czar, is the talk of the town thanks to his forthcoming Space Exploration Technologies — aka SpaceX... marketwatch.com/story/here-a… BLOOMBERG: Wall St braces for SPACEX with stress test, 'watch parties'...  Wall Street has spent months debating how much SpaceX is worth. Behind the scenes, a different challenge has occupied the institutions responsible for bringing it public: preparing the plumbing systems needed to support what could become the largest IPO in history. S&P Global Inc.’s Equity Bookbuild group, which helps underwriters capture and allocate investor demand during initial public offerings, has spent weeks expanding the efficiency and capacity of its infrastructure ahead of SpaceX’s Friday trading debut. At Depository Trust & Clearing Corp., staff plan to spend the weekend monitoring systems and communicating with industry peers. A blockbuster IPO is not just a test of investor demand. It is also a test of the technology, communications networks and risk-management systems responsible for processing millions of orders, messages and transactions at near-instantaneous speeds. Brokers, exchanges, market makers and clearing firms must all operate in sync as orders are routed, trades executed and transactions settled. SpaceX amplifies those demands. The company is expected to attract outsized interest from institutions, retail investors and exchange-traded funds alike. The offering has already generated more orders than shares available, according to people familiar with the matter, raising expectations that trading volumes could rank among the largest ever seen for a newly public company.....  msn.com/en-us/money/markets/…  FILED UNDER:  #SpaceXIPO, #ElonMusk, #SpaceXPublic, #LargestIPO, #MuskTrillionaire, #SpaceXStock, #RetailInvestors, #WallStreetIPO, #SpaceXDebut, #TechIPO, #MuskEmpire, #RecordIPO, #SpaceEconomy, #ElonVision, #SpaceXTrading, #IPO2026, #TrillionDollarCompany, #RetailRevolution, #MuskLoyalists, #SpaceXValuation, #HistoricIPO, #ElonChutzpah, #SpaceXfrenzy, #MuskArmy, #WallStreetPrep, #IPOstressTest, #SpaceXLaunch, #TechStocks, #AerospaceIPO, #MuskCompanies, #PublicOffering, #InvestorDemand, #BlockbusterIPO, #SpaceXnews, #ElonTrillionaire, #RetailTrading, #SpaceXhype, #MuskSuccess, #IPOrecords, #Elon2026, #SpaceXloyalists, #MuskRedFlags, #TechRevolution, #WallStreetWatch, #SpaceXfriday, #MuskVision, #IPOplumbing, #SpaceXrevolution, #ElonIPO