Is Musk’s SpaceX IPO date written in the stars? January 28, 2026 SpaceX may be aiming for the stars in more ways than one as Elon Musk has floated the idea of timing the rocket maker’s IPO to coincide with a rare planetary alignment, as well as his own birthday. The tentative window is mid-June, when Jupiter and Venus will appear unusually close together in the night sky, a [...]
Elon Musk’s Space X in talks with Wall Street banks over mega IPO January 23, 2026 Elon Musk’s aerospace firm Space X is holding early-stage discussions with a flurry of leading Wall Street banks about a potential listing that could rank among the largest market debuts ever. According to the Financial Times, the company is considering Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America for senior roles on [...]
Elon Musk flirts with Ryanair acquisition and firing Michael O’Leary January 20, 2026 The space-faring entrepreneur Elon Musk is pondering whether to ground his aspirations a little closer to earth, with suggestions on social media that he could acquire Ryanair and eject Michael O’Leary as chief executive. In a post on X, the Tesla and Space X chief asked his followers in a poll whether he should buy [...]
Investment trust rejects hedge fund assault ending Saba saga January 20, 2026 Shareholders of a major investment trust have roundly rejected a move by hedge fund tycoon Boaz Weinstein’s Saba to force through a radical shake-up of its leadership and investment philosophy. At a crunch Requisitioned General Meeting, Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust (Ewit) investors representing some 93 per cent of shares – excluding those held by Saba [...]
Ofcom investigation launched into Grok AI deepfakes on X January 12, 2026 The media and online safety watchdog has announced an investigation into Elon Musk’s X, to determine whether the platform has done enough to protect Brits from explicit deepfakes generated by its Grok AI. Ofcom pointed to “deeply concerning reports of the Grok AI chatbot account on X being used to create and share undressed images [...]
Mark Kleinman: What’s in store for the Square Mile in 2026? January 8, 2026 Mark Kleinman is Sky News’ City Editor and the man who gets the Square Mile talking in his weekly City AM column Not great, not awful: a fair summary of my corporate predictions for 2025. On the plus side, I was right to forecast a bid for ITV, or at least part of it, and correct that Thames [...]
US investor dials up attacks on investment trust before crunch vote January 7, 2026 The American hedge fund tycoon behind a campaign to shake up Britain’s investment trust sector has ramped up his attacks on a Baillie Gifford fund ahead of a pivotal shareholder vote, demanding answers over its decision to offload shares in Space X. Boaz Weinstein, the founder of Saba Capital, published an open letter to Edinburgh [...]
OpenAI, SpaceX, Anthropic: the tech giants lining up blockbuster IPOs December 28, 2025 For more than a decade, Silicon Valley’s most powerful companies have stayed private for longer than ever before, buoyed by deep pools of capital and sovereign wealth funding. But, as interest rates remain higher, AI infrastructure costs balloon and some of the world’s largest private firms mature into businesses of national, and increasingly geopolitical, importance, [...]
What can Britain learn from Elon Musk? How to fail… November 17, 2025 British engineering needs to be a little more Musk; pragmatic, ambitious and unafraid to learn in public, says Robert Rayner Elon Musk’s rise to trillionaire status is more than a story of wealth, it is a display of how technological vision and financial resilience can merge into a new model of progress. His trillion-dollar payout [...]
Ronaldo becomes first $1bn footballer after new Al-Nassr deal October 8, 2025 Cristiano Ronaldo has become the first billionaire footballer after his reported $400m Al-Nassr contract extension earlier this year. The 40-year-old Portuguese – who has enjoyed spells at the likes of Sporting Lisbon, Manchester United, Real Madrid and Juventus – is currently plying his trade in the Saudi Pro League with top-of-the-table Al-Nassr. And his bumper [...]