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Risk of including a meme stock to major indices | MarketTalk

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Oil prices are falling, bond yields are easing and investors are rotating back into risk assets – including SpaceX. But beneath the optimism, a new question is emerging: what exactly is – and will be - inside your index?
SpaceX's surge to a $2.5 trillion valuation has reignited the debate around speculation, passive investing and index concentration. If included in the Nasdaq 100 today, the company could become one of the index's largest constituents despite ongoing cash burn and a valuation that many argue is disconnected from fundamentals.

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0:00 Intro
1:03 Market update
1:57 SpaceX – a meme stock that will be included in every sauce
5:41 Rotation, but...
8:41 FX update

Ipek Ozkardeskaya has begun her financial career in 2010 in the structured products desk of the Swiss Banque Cantonale Vaudoise. She worked at HSBC Private Bank in Geneva in relation to high and ultra-high net worth clients. In 2012, she started as FX Strategist at Swissquote Bank. She worked as a Senior Market Analyst in London Capital Group in London and in Shanghai. She returned to Swissquote Bank as Senior Analyst in 2020, and launched her own website ipekScope.com in 2025.

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