SpaceX shares crashed below the $135 IPO price, wiping out $1 trillion since June. A scrubbed Starship launch and upcoming investor lockups triggered the selloff.
Your retirement account has to follow some rules, for example to buy large ETFs. Large ETFs have to follow stock indexes. Stock indexes have to include “big” companies.
So when a big AND inflated company comes along, makes it into the index, and then deflates, you all are screwed automatically and by all the rules.
To prevent this, there were rules in place that stipulated that a reasonable time had to pass for a new company to enter the index after IPO. Strangely, they scrapped that rule just before this one…
A very interesting point.
Your retirement account has to follow some rules, for example to buy large ETFs. Large ETFs have to follow stock indexes. Stock indexes have to include “big” companies.
So when a big AND inflated company comes along, makes it into the index, and then deflates, you all are screwed automatically and by all the rules.
To prevent this, there were rules in place that stipulated that a reasonable time had to pass for a new company to enter the index after IPO. Strangely, they scrapped that rule just before this one…