it raises questions about what a strong start may mean for the second half of the year and whether the fed is justified in a big rate cut. what if the market's ahead of itself? think on that. richard branson is bringing virgin galactlam galactic to th market. it will go public as a merger with social capital -- with social capital -- i don't know how to say this, headasophia. the combined companies will be worth roughly $1.5 billion. >> this will give us the money to see us right through to profitability. it will mean that we'll be able to ramp up production and get many more spaceships built and another mother ship built. many more rockets built. >> galactic hasn't flown a mission with paying customers yet, but it's notched two successful demonstration flights of its rocket plane called spaceship 2. it's more than 50 miles above earths. virgin galactic is expected to compete directly with blue