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Harvard Management Company has disclosed a two point two billion dollar stake in SpaceX, making it one of the largest endowment holders of Elon Musk's rocket company. The position tops Harvard's thirteen-F filing as its single largest disclosed stock holding, underscoring how early institutional conviction in private space infrastructure has compounded into a generational return for the endowment.
Staying with Musk, Tesla has effectively ended Sweden's longest-running labor dispute, buying out every worker still participating in a nearly three-year strike called by the IF Metall union. The union confirmed the action takes effect August nineteenth, closing a chapter that drew widespread attention across European labor markets and tested Tesla's resistance to collective bargaining on the continent.
On the ETF front, investors weighing income strategies are watching the contrast between Schwab's SCHD and Fidelity's FDVV. Schwab's dividend equity fund carries a notably lower expense ratio of point zero six percent against Fidelity's point fifteen percent, though FDVV leans into technology-sector dividend payers, giving it a different risk and growth profile that may suit investors comfortable with sector concentration.
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