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Elon Musk said he only gave SpaceX a less than 10% chance of succeeding. He spoke from Starbase, Texas via livestream and addressed SpaceX employees.

On this episode of Stock Movers with Alexis Christoforous: - Adobe (ADBE) shares are on the move as the company reports today. It fell in premarket trading on Friday after the software maker said that CFO Dan Durn would be departing the company June 15. The news comes after the CEO announced he would resign earlier this year. - Lennar (LEN) shares are lower after its forecasts for new orders and deliveries trailed expectations, and as CEO Stuart Miller said the latest quarter was "defined by the same stubborn headwinds that have challenged the housing market for the past several years."  - SpaceX (SPCX) shares are pricing as it debuts today on the NASDAQ. Space stocks are up amid the IPO, including Rocket Labs (RKLB), EchoStar (SATS) and Redwire (RDW).

US consumer sentiment rose in early June for the first time in four months as the University of Michigan's preliminary sentiment index increased to 48.9 in June from a record low 44.8 in May. Joanne Hsu, director of University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers, provides background on the numbers.

Shares of SpaceX appear ready to jump when they start trading on Friday after Elon Musk's company made history with a $75 billion IPO that instantly turned it into one of the biggest public companies in the world. Early indications of buying interest on Nasdaq pointed to a roughly 30% jump from the shares' offering price of $135. The stock is expected to officially start trading later Friday under the ticker SPCX. Campbell Harvey, Professor of Finance at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, breaks down why the SpaceX IPO could expose major flaws in index construction, passive fund buying and market structure, with a tiny float and accelerated benchmark inclusion set to intensify demand.

US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said roughly 7 million barrels of daily oil and fuel shipments are flowing through the Strait of Hormuz, or about half of the volumes stranded at the start of the Iran war. Wright spoke Friday with Annmarie Hordern during the Bloomberg Energy Security Executive Briefing in Houston.

Stuart Kaiser, head of equity trading strategy at Citi, sees some market friction amid a "broad-based demand for capital" across initial public offerings, secondary stock sales and bonds markets.

Matt Kennedy, Senior IPO Market Strategist at Renaissance Capital, expects SpaceX to more than triple revenue in the next two years. He speaks before SpaceX begins trading for the first time on "Bloomberg Surveillance."

The anticipation for the record setting SpaceX initial public offering is building this morning at the Nasdaq. Executives have arrived along with Elon Musk's mother. Bloomberg's Yahaira Anand is there.

Stocks can continue climbing without a specific catalyst, despite recent volatility, as structural factors support higher valuations, according to HSBC Chief multi-asset strategist Max Kettner. "I don't think there needs to be a catalyst," said Kettner. He explained that we're in a world of structurally higher nominal growth, and structurally higher revenue growth, meaning if company margins don't change then earnings will continue to rise. Kettner joined Guy Johnson, Anna Edwards and Tom Mackenzie on "The Opening Trade."

"Not being invested is actually you're greatest risk," KKR Partner Alisa Wood tells Bloomberg's Anna Edwards and Tom Mackenzie. Wood spoke on 'Bloomberg: The Opening Trade'. This interview occurred on Tuesday, June 9.