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ASX soars as oil hits two-month low; SpaceX raises $106b in record-breaking IPO; Housing slump smashes stamp duty
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SpaceX raised $106 billion in a record-breaking IPO, the largest capital deployment for a space-infrastructure venture. For CTOs, this validates satellite and edge-AI infrastructure as foundational, influencing compute architecture and cloud vendor evaluation.













