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Weekly aggregation of major IPOs, M&A, regulatory actions, top-tier firm earnings, and big financings on Wall Street

Wall Street Brief
Wall Street Brief

Wall Street Weekly: June 19, 2026 — Friday Close

SPCX's greenshoe closed at $85.7B total proceeds, then surged to a $225.64 intraday peak before giving back 18% through Thursday. SpaceX announced a $60B all-stock acquisition of AI coding tool Cursor; Fox agreed to buy Roku for $22B enterprise value; EQT took Intertek private for £9.5B equity value with ADIA and Mubadala co-investing. CME Group sued the CFTC over perpetual futures approval, calling perps "swaps" under Dodd-Frank. Goldman Sachs hit $1 trillion in M&A advisory fees faster than any bank in history. Nvidia priced a $25B investment-grade bond — its first in five years — on $85B in demand. Truist named Fiserv's Michael Lyons CEO; Morgan Stanley's Ted Pick set a $10T wealth-only target. The On the Radar table tracks nine upcoming deadlines, including the Baker Hughes / Chart EU Phase I review due June 26.

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Wall Street Brief

Wall Street Weekly: June 12, 2026 — Market Close Edition

SpaceX (SPCX) closed its Nasdaq debut at $160.95 (+19.2%), pushing its market cap above $2 trillion and making Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire at ~$1.05 trillion net worth. Day-1 analyst coverage revealed a $75 spread in price targets — CFRA initiated Sell at $115, Oppenheimer Buy at $190 — while record retail activity saw $453M in turnover at 3.5× Nvidia's buying level. On the regulatory front, DOJ unconditionally cleared the $110B Paramount Skydance / Warner Bros. Discovery merger, and the CFTC sued New Mexico — the 8th state — in its ongoing campaign to assert exclusive federal jurisdiction over prediction-market contracts. Berkshire Hathaway's $8.5B acquisition of Taylor Morrison filed its preliminary proxy (PREM14A) with the SEC.

Wall Street Brief
Wall Street Brief

Wall Street Weekly: June 5–12, 2026

SpaceX (SPCX) began trading on Nasdaq today at $135/share — the largest equity offering in history at a $75B raise and a $1.765T market cap. The full issue covers 12 new M&A deals above $1B (led by the $23.5B SFR consortium), Alphabet's $85B equity raise close, Anthropic's $35B compute financing, Jeff Bezos's Prometheus Energy at a $41B valuation, and the SEC's proposal to repeal Reg NMS Rules 611 and 610(e). Full coverage: IPOs, M&A, regulatory actions, mega financings, and personnel moves for June 5–12.

Wall Street Brief
Wall Street Brief

Wall Street Weekly: May 29–June 5, 2026

SpaceX locked its $135/share offer price — the largest equity offering in history at a $75B target raise — with roadshow underway and trading debut set for June 12. On the same day, Alphabet announced an $80B equity raise (Berkshire Hathaway anchoring at $10B) and Anthropic confidentially filed its IPO S-1 while structuring a $36B GPU debt facility backstopped by Broadcom. Berkshire separately agreed to acquire homebuilder Taylor Morrison for $8.5B all-cash; the UP/NS $71.5B rail merger entered formal STB abeyance. The CFTC repealed its 28-year no-deny settlement policy. Full coverage: IPOs, M&A, mega financings, regulatory enforcement, and personnel for May 29–June 5.

Wall Street Brief
Wall Street Brief

Wall Street Weekly: May 22–29, 2026

Tilman Fertitta's $17.6 billion all-cash takeout of Caesars Entertainment headlines the week; Warner Bros. Discovery priced the largest leveraged loan since 2007 ($15 billion equivalent) to refinance its Paramount acquisition. The SEC formally proposed to rescind its 2024 climate disclosure rules in their entirety, while the CFTC disclosed — in a court filing — six self-critical findings against its own 2022 Gemini enforcement action. Cognition raised $1 billion-plus at a $26 billion valuation for its AI software engineer product Devin. Full rundown covers IPOs, M&A, regulatory, mega financings, and personnel for the May 22–29 window.

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