U.S. IPOs and share sales hit record $251 billion in first half of 2026

The claim traces to @DeItaone (Walter Bloomberg), a reliable relay of Bloomberg/Reuters terminal headlines, and is echoed by the Odaily newsflash citing that post. The qualitative core—a record H1 2026 U.S. IPO boom led by SpaceX's record-shattering listing, with an expected AI-driven Q3 pipeline including Anthropic—is independently and strongly corroborated by BBC and Euronews, which confirm SpaceX raised ~$75bn at a ~$1.75tn valuation (the largest IPO ever) and Anthropic's confidential filing. Given SpaceX alone accounts for ~$75bn, an aggregate $251 billion H1 total is plausible. The specific dollar figure, however, rests on a single aggregator headline; I could not locate the underlying primary wire report stating $251 billion exactly, which caps confidence at medium.