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If SpaceX is underpriced by just 10%, Ritter said, that’s billions in profit for the “people and institutions that are lucky enough to get shares allocated to them.”

From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026

India's central bank has already poured billions of dollars to stabilise the currency, curbed speculative trading and offered a special credit line to oil importers to ease dollar demand.

From Barron's • May 17, 2026

Utilities around the country are planning to spend tens of billions of dollars to build new sources of power generation and high-voltage transmission lines to carry electricity from power plants over long distances.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026

Witnesses included OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, former OpenAI board member, Tasha McCauley, and even Microsoft boss Satya Nadella - who insisted his company did extensive due diligence before investing billions into OpenAI.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

The moon had set by now, and the sky to the south was profoundly dark, though the billions of stars lay on it like diamonds on velvet.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman