SpaceX Goes Public, Musk Becomes History's First Trillionaire

Germany

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Skeptical Europe · 1 of 9 countries

Berlin headlines the 'worrying power' of Musk and the stacked valuations accepted without question

Brazil

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Global South — emerging economies in parallel · 4 of 9 countries

São Paulo notes SpaceX is worth double all 344 companies of the entire Brazilian exchange

China

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Strategic Asia · 1 of 9 countries

Beijing studies the 'SpaceX playbook' for its own IPOs despite a persistent technology gap

United States

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Enthusiastic Atlanticist circle · 2 of 9 countries

Washington celebrates the world record while calling the deal a 'hopes-and-dreams IPO'

France

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Enthusiastic Atlanticist circle · 2 of 9 countries

Paris admires the space feat but headlines a stock debut 'of all dangers'

India

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Global South — emerging economies in parallel · 4 of 9 countries

New Delhi flags locked-out Asian investors and Starlink's addition to Iran's target list

Mexico

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Global South — emerging economies in parallel · 4 of 9 countries

Mexico translates the trillion into images: all the world's automakers, or Switzerland's GDP

Nigeria

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Global South — emerging economies in parallel · 4 of 9 countries

Lagos measures the chasm: while Musk crosses the trillion threshold, Dangote plateaus at $36.5 billion — and Nigeria's press interrogates what this disproportion reveals about the structure of global wealth.

Qatar

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Gulf and oil-producing world · 1 of 9 countries

Doha notes the IPO shatters Aramco's record and could be 'highly undesirable'