Space exploration, AI memory chips & Beazley: The Companies and Markets Show

It’s been a dramatic week in a year already full of drama, with Donald Trump’s sabre rattling over Greenland, and subsequent threat to impose further tariffs, causing alarm before being walked back on the basis of an apparent compromise.

But with that saga now seemingly in the rear-view mirror – for how long, we don’t know – we kick things off today with space exploration, which does have specific application to the current geopolitical debates as we shall discuss shortly. Mike Fahy is on hand to examine how the soaring space sector is faring ahead of a possible SpaceX IPO later this year.

Then it’s on to the latest part of the tech sector to attract widespread investor interest as a result of the AI craze: memory chip stocks in the US and further afield have been booming as people cotton on to the vital role they play in data centres. Arthur Sants, recently returned from a trip to the factories of South Korea, will discuss shares, shortages and smartphone prices, among other things.

And to finish up we will be back on home turf as Julian Hofmann joins us to discuss the bid interest in Lloyd’s insurer Beazley from Zurich, and the prospects for more consolidation across the sector in general.

Timestamps

00:00 Intro

1:29 Space Industry

13:11 Memory chips

21:43 Beazley takeover offer

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