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Trump Media soars after striking deal with Crypto.com to launch ETFs

Slapping a Trump wrapper on a series of products has been a critical driver of the president’s success in the business world, and the publicly traded company that bears his name is emulating the strategy.

Trump Media & Technology Group is spiking in the premarket after striking a deal with Crypto.com to launch a series of exchange-traded investment vehicles.

These products “are expected to comprise digital assets as well as securities with a Made in America focus spanning diverse industries such as energy.” On the digital asset front, bitcoin and Cronos were highlighted as likely holdings.

The press release contains no explicit reference to the president’s meme coin, trump, which Trump said was “the greatest of them all” this weekend.

The president is the majority shareholder of Trump Media & Technology Group, which is the owner of the social media platform Truth Social and the incipient fintech brand Truth.Fi, with a stake worth about $2.6 billion at current prices.

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SpaceX gets a wave of bullish ratings from Wall Street analysts

SpaceX received more than a dozen positive analyst calls on Tuesday — including from major Wall Street banks — as they initiate coverage on Elon Musk’s space and AI company.

SpaceX went public on June 12 at a $2.2 trillion valuation, the largest debut in history. While the company hasn’t yet posted a profit, it seems to have convinced Wall Street that it will get there and grow its valuation on the way.

Of the at least 17 analysts that gave a rating on Tuesday, all but one gave it a “buy” or “outperform” rating. MoffettNathanson was "neutral."

The ratings come as SpaceX joined the Nasdaq 100 index, a benchmark tech-heavy basket of companies that underpins millions of portfolios. The inclusion adds built-in demand for the stock from index funds and ETFs.

Still, SpaceX fell more than 5% on Tuesday amid a broader sell-off, and is currently effectively flat from its opening price of $150 a share.

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