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Cathie Wood's Ark Invest has trimmed its SpaceX position, and traders are asking whether that's a signal or just portfolio housekeeping. Ark still pegs the reusable rocket launcher market at one hundred sixty billion dollars, so the cut looks more like rebalancing than conviction shift. Watch how private market valuations respond.
Turning to crypto, spot bitcoin, solana, and ether ETFs all logged weekly outflows, with ether funds extending their outflow streak to nine consecutive days. Solana snapped a record fourteen-week inflow run, which is the more striking data point. Broad risk-off sentiment appears to be washing through digital asset products simultaneously, suggesting macro pressure rather than asset-specific concerns.
And in electric vehicles, Lucid Group's demand problem is now structural enough to force operational surgery. By June of two thousand twenty six, a new chief executive had eliminated a second production shift at the Arizona factory and halted builds on undeliverable inventory. With a market cap sitting at just one point five three billion dollars, the margin for error here is essentially zero.
That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.
