Morning Forecast: Tuesday 2 June
The biggest IPO ever lists June 12, and with barely 3% of shares trading, analysts are bracing for 20–30% swings in the first days.
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👀 Today’s Stories at a Glance
🚀 SpaceX insiders skip lock-up: Friends-and-family shares carry no lock-up, letting a select group sell into any first-day pop.
🛢️ Oil spikes as truce cracks: Crude jumped roughly 5% after fresh strikes gutted hopes for a Lebanon ceasefire.
💰 Google’s record equity raise: Alphabet will sell $80 billion in stock for artificial intelligence (AI), with Berkshire buying $10 billion.
🤖 Anthropic files before OpenAI: The Claude maker confidentially filed for an initial public offering (IPO), edging ahead of rival OpenAI.
🤖 AI already cutting exposed jobs: Roles most exposed to AI lost 0.2% over a year while overall employment grew.
🇨🇦 Canada slips into recession: Gross domestic product (GDP) shrank 0.1% annualized, the first technical recession since the pandemic.
💸 Kremlin officials warn on war: Russia’s finance officials told Putin that Ukraine war spending is on an unaffordable path.
⚖️ Lawyer denies insider-trading ring: A former mergers lawyer pleaded not guilty to leading a scheme worth tens of millions.
🏗️ Wall Street funds AI buildout: Cloud giants may spend about $527 billion in 2026 on AI infrastructure, says Goldman.
🧠 One Big Thing
Three stories in the edition rhyme: Google selling $80 billion in equity, Anthropic filing to list, and SpaceX pricing its debut, all framed by Goldman's $527 billion estimate for 2026 cloud capital spending. The common thread is that the AI buildout has outgrown even the richest balance sheets, which is why Berkshire was tapped and public markets are next in line. The real trade is no longer picking the best model; it is deciding whether to fund the spend before profits arrive. Watch which of these names prices first, because that listing sets the valuation template the rest get measured against.
⚖️ Fear & Greed
📉 The Number That Matters
3% TO 4%
SpaceX may float just 3% to 4% of its shares, so even small order flow could swing a stock targeting a $1.75 trillion valuation, with Morningstar flagging possible 20% to 30% moves in the opening days.
⚔️ Winners vs Losers
Winners
HPE 0.00%↑: Hewlett Packard Enterprise jumped after reporting record fiscal Q2 revenue of $10.68 billion with adjusted EPS of $0.79, crushing estimates, and sharply raising its full-year EPS outlook to $3.35 to $3.45 on surging AI server and networking demand.
MRVL 0.00%↑: Marvell Technology surged after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called it a potential next trillion-dollar company, with momentum amplified by its newly announced 102.4 Tbps switch and growing optical interconnect positioning for AI data centers.
Losers
FULC 0.00%↑: Fulcrum Therapeutics collapsed after discontinuing pociredir, its only clinical-stage asset, for sickle cell disease following FDA concerns that PRC2-targeting drugs carry malignancy risk, and launching a strategic review of alternatives including a possible sale.
ODD 0.00%↑: ODDITY Tech fell after reporting first quarter revenue down roughly 26% year over year to $197.9 million with negative adjusted EBITDA, and guiding to a further 25 to 30% revenue decline in Q2 as its advertising partner dislocation continues.
📊 Market Snapshot
Cryptocurrencies:
Bitcoin (BTC): $69,426 (▼ -2.64%)
Ethereum (ETH): $1,977 (▼ -1.34%)
XRP: $1.26 (▼ -2.66%)
Equity Indices (Futures):
S&P 500: $7,601 (▼ -0.17%)
NASDAQ 100: $30,559 (▼ -0.02%)
FTSE 100: £10,369 (▲ 0.41%)
Commodities & Bonds:
10-Year US Treasury Yield: 4.43% (▼ -0.52%)
Oil (WTI): $91 (▼ -1.47%)
Gold: $4,529 (▲ 0.99%)
Silver: $76.39 (▲ 2.09%)
Data as of: UK (BST) 12:51 / US (EDT): 07:51 / Asia (Tokyo): 20:51
✅ 5 Things to Know
🚀 SpaceX Hands Insiders an Early Exit Door
SpaceX disclosed in an amended prospectus yesterday that it will set aside up to 5% of the Class A shares in its initial public offering (IPO) for a “directed share program” covering employees and the friends and family of its executives. The twist is in the fine print: those shares carry no lock-up, the period that normally bars insiders from selling right after a listing, while more than 60% of pre-IPO stock, including Elon Musk’s, stays locked for 366 days. Morgan Stanley is running the program. The deal targets roughly $75 billion at a valuation of at least $1.75 trillion, which would make it the largest IPO ever, dwarfing Saudi Aramco’s $29.4 billion record from 2019. (CNBC)
For retail investors, the structure matters more than the rocket. SpaceX is steering about 30% of the offering to retail platforms like Robinhood, Fidelity and Schwab, roughly triple the usual share, but demand is expected to swamp supply, so most buyers may get partial fills or nothing and end up chasing the stock at the open. Pricing is set for June 11, with trading expected June 12 under the ticker SPCX. The float is thin, around 3% to 4% of the company, and Morningstar has flagged possible swings of 20% to 30% in the first days. The same filing also revealed an Anthropic cloud-computing deal worth $1.25 billion a month that either side can end after just six months. (Bloomberg)
Sensei’s Insight: The friends-and-family shares skip the 366-day lock-up that holds Musk and most insiders, so a select group can sell into the first-day pop while everyone else waits a year. With a float of just 3% to 4%, small order flow could swing this stock hard.
🛢️ Oil Jumps as Trump’s Hezbollah Truce Wobbles
Oil posted its sharpest one-day jump in weeks yesterday after Israel pushed troops deeper into Lebanon and the United States and Iran traded strikes, gutting hopes of extending a fragile ceasefire. West Texas Intermediate crude (WTI), the US benchmark, rose about 5% to settle near $92.16 a barrel, while Brent, the global benchmark, gained roughly 4% to about $94.98, the highest since the Iran war began. President Trump said he had reached Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Lebanese militia, through intermediaries and secured a pledge that “all shooting will stop,” and that Israel would keep troops out of Beirut. No US president has ever communicated with the group. (CNBC)
The trouble is that the ground didn’t match the words. Missiles launched from Lebanon minutes after Trump’s post, and Israeli forces had just seized the 900-year-old Beaufort Castle, the deepest incursion into Lebanon in more than 25 years. Iran said it was suspending indirect talks with Washington; Trump said they were “continuing, at a rapid pace.” The next test comes today, when Lebanon and Israel are due to resume direct talks in Washington. Oil had cratered almost 19% in May, its worst month since the pandemic, on earlier ceasefire optimism, so traders are repricing fast in both directions. The level to watch is the Strait of Hormuz, the chokepoint for about a fifth of the world’s oil. (PBS)
Sensei’s Insight: Trump’s word is the only proof this truce exists. Hezbollah hasn’t confirmed it, and rockets flew anyway. Today’s Washington talks are the real signal. If they collapse, May’s oil crash reverses fast and the Hormuz risk premium comes straight back.
💰 Google Raises $80 Billion, and Buffett’s Firm Buys In
Alphabet, Google’s parent, said yesterday it will raise $80 billion in equity to fund its artificial intelligence (AI) buildout, the largest equity raise in United States corporate history. The package splits three ways: $30 billion in underwritten public offerings, a $40 billion at-the-market (ATM) program that sells stock gradually starting in the third quarter, and a $10 billion private placement bought directly by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway. Berkshire is paying $351.81 a share for Class A stock and $348.20 for Class C, adding to a Google stake it has built since late 2025. The cash goes toward capital spending Alphabet now pegs at $180 billion to $190 billion this year. Shares slipped about 2% as investors weighed the dilution. (Bloomberg)
What stands out is who showed up to buy. Berkshire sat out most of the AI rally and tends to avoid expensive technology stocks, so a $10 billion commitment from Greg Abel, who took over as chief executive from Buffett earlier this year, reads as confidence that Google’s heavy AI spending will pay off rather than burn cash. For existing shareholders, the trade-off is dilution, because issuing this much new stock spreads profit across more shares, which is why the price fell on otherwise upbeat news. The wider signal is that even one of the most cash-rich companies on earth now needs outside equity to keep pace with AI infrastructure costs. Other large cloud players may feel pressure to follow with raises of their own. (Axios)
Sensei’s Insight: Berkshire avoided big tech for years. With this $10 billion, Google becomes one of its largest holdings, an outsized technology bet for a value shop. Abel is signaling the AI spending will pay off, even as the dilution knocked the stock.
🤖 Anthropic Beats OpenAI to the IPO Door
Anthropic confidentially filed for a United States initial public offering yesterday, edging ahead of rival OpenAI in the race to bring a big artificial intelligence company to public markets. The maker of the Claude assistant did not disclose the size or price of the offering, which a draft filing of this kind does not require. What is known is the backdrop: Anthropic raised $65 billion last week at a $965 billion valuation, more than double its $380 billion value in February, and reported annualized revenue of about $47 billion. That puts it ahead of OpenAI by market value heading into the listing. The filing lands alongside SpaceX’s imminent debut and an expected OpenAI filing, stacking several of the largest listings in history on top of each other. (Reuters)
For retail investors, the filing turns the private AI valuation boom into something the public market can finally price and, eventually, buy. What complicates the picture is that all three giants now lining up, Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX, still lose money. That is what makes the first one to actually price so important: it sets the template for how Wall Street values fast-growing but unprofitable AI companies. Anthropic’s confidential route lets regulators review the books privately before any roadshow, so the public filing, when it comes, will be the first real look at its finances. Watch whether the $47 billion revenue figure and the path to profit can justify a near trillion-dollar tag once the numbers are open. (AP)
Sensei’s Insight: Anthropic reached the IPO door before OpenAI, but a confidential filing is not a price. The number that matters is the public filing still to come, the first time anyone outside sees whether $47 billion in revenue justifies a $965 billion tag.
💼 AI Is Already Cutting the Jobs It Touches
The first hard government data on artificial intelligence (AI) and employment shows the roles most exposed to it are already shrinking. A group of 18 occupations the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) flagged as AI-exposed, about 10 million jobs spanning customer service, clerical and sales work, lost 0.2% of employment in the year to May 2025, while overall US employment grew 0.8%. Strip out fast-growing medical assistants and the other 17 roles fell 1.6%, a second straight annual drop. Customer service representatives led the losses, down about 130,000 positions, or 4.8%. Since just before ChatGPT launched in 2022, credit clerks have fallen 26% and broadcast announcers 21%. (Bloomberg)
For investors, this is a quiet macro signal hiding inside a strong labor market. If AI keeps thinning lower-wage service and clerical roles, wage pressure could cool, and that feeds straight into Federal Reserve thinking and bond yields, which eased after the report. Goldman Sachs economists estimate AI is already costing 5,000 to 10,000 net jobs a month in exposed fields, and outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas says AI now gets cited in a rising share of layoffs. The tension is the whole story: capital is pouring into AI infrastructure while the jobs AI touches quietly disappear. The next national payrolls report will show whether the pattern is widening. (CBS News)
Sensei’s Insight: The headline jobs market still looks healthy, which is why this gets missed. The damage sits in specific roles, not the totals. If it spreads, it shows up first as cooler wage growth, and cooler wages are what give the Fed room to cut.
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🇨🇦 Canada Slips Into a Technical Recession
Canada fell into a technical recession for the first time since the pandemic, blindsiding economists who had expected solid growth. Gross domestic product (GDP), the total value of what an economy produces, slipped at an annualized 0.1% in the first quarter after a revised 1% drop late last year, against forecasts near 1.5% growth. The drag came from weaker exports hit by United States tariffs on autos and steel and a fifth straight quarterly fall in business investment as companies froze plans. For investors, the live question is the Bank of Canada’s June 10 rate decision, where markets now put the odds of a hold near certainty after months of talk about a hike. An early estimate already points to a 0.4% rebound in April led by oil and gas, so the slump may already be ending. (BNN Bloomberg)
💸 Putin’s Own Officials Call the War Unaffordable
Senior officials in Russia’s Finance Ministry and central bank have warned President Vladimir Putin that war spending in Ukraine is on an unaffordable path, the most serious sign of internal division in Moscow since the 2022 invasion. Documents reviewed by Bloomberg show the officials urged defense cuts and Putin pushed back, telling them to find savings elsewhere first. The deficit hit a record 5.9 trillion rubles, about $82 billion or 2.5% of economic output, in the first four months of the year, roughly 50% above the full-year plan, even with oil revenue lifted by the Iran war. War spending now runs near 40% of the federal budget. For markets, the channel is oil: a cash-squeezed Kremlin could eventually shift the war’s path, and that is what would move energy prices. (Bloomberg)
⚖️ Lawyers Deny Leading a Huge Insider-Trading Ring
The biggest insider-trading case in years moved toward trial yesterday as Nicolo Nourafchan, a former mergers lawyer at top firms including Sidley Austin, Latham & Watkins and Goodwin Procter, pleaded not guilty in Boston federal court to leading a ring that prosecutors say reaped tens of millions of dollars in illegal profits. His brother and more than a dozen others also pleaded not guilty, with around 30 people charged in all. Prosecutors allege the group logged into law firms’ document systems between 2018 and 2024 to steal confidential details on nearly 30 mergers, then traded ahead of the deals. Nine others quietly pleaded guilty during the investigation, and two suspects remain fugitives in Russia and Israel. The underlying deals are old, so there is no live stock impact. (Bloomberg Law)
🏗️ Wall Street Bets the Future on AI Data Centers
The defining money flow on Wall Street right now isn’t deals or buyouts, it’s financing the physical buildout behind artificial intelligence: the warehouses of servers, power and networking that train and run AI models. Goldman Sachs research now pegs the big cloud companies’ 2026 capital spending at about $527 billion, up from $465 billion estimated late last year, and sees roughly $7.6 trillion of AI infrastructure investment between 2026 and 2031. Data center debt issuance doubled to $182 billion in 2025. For investors, that capital is propping up power utilities, chipmakers and construction firms, while tying bank profits to a handful of hyperscale clients continuing to spend. The risk is concentration: if AI spending slows, so does the deal flow. (Goldman Sachs)
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