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Elon Musk announced Monday he intends to give every child in America a share of SpaceX stock, covering roughly seventy-two million kids. SpaceX remains one of the world's most valuable private companies, but eligibility details and the mechanics of how this would actually work remain entirely unclear, leaving investors and analysts with more questions than answers.
Shifting to healthcare, which led the broader market higher on Wednesday as investors rotated out of semiconductors and into defensive sectors. Eli Lilly and UnitedHealth were among the session's strongest large-cap names, with the S&P five hundred finishing positive even as the AI trade continued to lose some of its grip. Eight of eleven sectors closed green, a sign that the rotation has real breadth behind it.
And in clinical-stage biotech, Evaxion reported that patients treated with its personalized cancer vaccine EVX-zero one showed durable responses through three full years of follow-up in a Phase two advanced melanoma study, with no tumor progression among responders. That kind of durability data is exactly what the market looks for before committing to a longer investment thesis in early-stage oncology.
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