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A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at the opening bell on April 21, 2025, in New York City, Wall Street stocks opened lower Monday amid lingering uncertainty over President Trump’s trade policy as markets looked ahead to major earnings later in the week. China on Monday hit out at other countries negotiating trade deals with the United States at Beijing’s expense, vowing countermeasures against those who “appease” Washington. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP)
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Bret Johnsen (C), SpaceX Chief Financial Officer, and Gwynne Shotwell (center R), SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer, celebrate with SpaceX employees as they ring the opening bell at the Nasdaq MarketSite to celebrate the launch of SpaceX’s initial public offering (IPO) in New York on June 12, 2026. Elon Musk’s SpaceX begins trading on the Nasdaq exchange on Friday with the biggest initial public offering in history expected to make the polarizing entrepreneur the world’s first trillionaire. The company priced more than 555 million shares at $135 each in a filing with the US markets regulator on Thursday, placing SpaceX in the top 10 of Wall Street’s biggest companies with a valuation of just under $1.8 trillion — ahead of Tesla, Facebook-owner Meta and Walmart. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP)
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk arrives for the inauguration ceremony before Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th US President in the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla / POOL / AFP)
Iran’s delegation including Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran Abbas Araghchi, centre, and Speaker of the Islamic Parliament of Iran, Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf, third right, arrive for a quadrilateral meeting between the United States, Iran, Pakistan and Qatar near Lake Lucerne, Switzerland, on 21 June 2026.
Everest survivor Dawa Sherpa speaks during an interview with AFP in Kathmandu on June 18, 2026. Dawa, a Nepali mountaineer who spent six days dragging himself off Mount Everest after being abandoned has been moved out of intensive care as he slowly recovers, his family said on June 9. (Photo by Prakash MATHEMA / AFP)
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KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI - JUNE 16: Lionel Messi #10 of Argentina celebrates scoring his team’s first goal during the FIFA World Cup 2026 Group J match between Argentina and Algeria at Kansas City Stadium on June 16, 2026 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by Charlotte Wilson/Getty Images)