The SpaceX IPO hedging challenge facing institutional investors is unlike anything Wall Street has encountered before: when SPCX begins trading on the Nasdaq on 12 June, there will be no directly comparable public company against which traders can build a hedge. Reuters reported that SpaceX targeted 11 June for IPO pricing, with the listing to follow the next day. ‘What are you going to do, short NASA?’ asks Dennis Davitt, chief investment officer at Millbank Dartmoor Portsmouth. It is a rhetorical question, but it captures the problem precisely. The SpaceX IPO Hedging Challenge Has No Easy Proxy For institutional investors…
Author: Funke Adeyemi
Funke Adeyemi
Funke Adeyemi spent a decade in corporate banking and fintech before moving to business journalism. She started in trade finance at a major UK bank, moved to a payments company scaling into African markets, and spent her last role leading partnerships at a cross-border remittance platform. She writes about business strategy, fintech, digital banking, and the corporate news that moves markets. She is interested in how companies actually make money rather than how they describe making money in investor presentations. Funke lives in South London. She reads earnings calls the way other people listen to podcasts, and finds them about as reliable.
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The Marvell Technology S&P 500 inclusion announcement landed like a starting pistol for options traders, touching off a wave of bullish positioning across semiconductor names at a moment when the sector was already raw from two weeks of violent swings. The Marvell Technology S&P 500 Inclusion Trade S&P Dow Jones Indices confirmed, via a S&P Dow Jones Indices press release, that Marvell Technology and contract electronics manufacturer Flex would join the index prior to the open on 22 June 2026, coinciding with the quarterly rebalance. Pool Corp and The Campbell’s Company are the two names being removed to make room.…
