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SpaceX made history this week, briefly surpassing Amazon in market capitalization, touching two point nine seven trillion dollars at its intraday peak on June sixteenth. That milestone puts Elon Musk's private space venture in rare company, raising serious questions about valuation, liquidity, and what a potential public offering might look like for investors.
Shifting to fixed income, if you're rotating into bonds right now, the conventional wisdom of loading up on U.S. Treasuries may be worth reconsidering. Vanguard's Emerging Markets Government Bond ETF has quietly outperformed domestic bond benchmarks over the past ten years, offering yield-hungry investors an alternative that's earned its track record through a full cycle of rate environments.
And on the macro front, a new AP-NORC poll shows sixty-five percent of Americans disapprove of President Trump's handling of Iran, even as the administration signals a potential deal may be within reach. That level of public skepticism carries weight, particularly for defense sector positioning and energy markets, where geopolitical risk premiums remain sensitive to any shift in diplomatic tone.
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