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Blue Origin Raises $10 Billion at $130 Billion Valuation — First Outside Funding in 25 Years Led by Coatue, Bezos

Blue Origin is raising $10 billion in its first-ever outside funding round at a pre-money valuation of $130 billion, with Coatue Management leading at $4 billion, Jeff Bezos contributing $2 billion, and institutional investors covering the remainder. The round comes weeks after SpaceX's $86 billion IPO valued Musk's company at roughly $2 trillion. Amazon stock, Blue Origin's historical funding source, is in focus as Bezos no longer needs to sell shares to sustain the company.

Nasdaq-100 Adds CoreWeave, Astera Labs, Rocket Lab in First Rank-Based Rebalance — Drops Zscaler, Cognizant, Charter

The Nasdaq-100 added Astera Labs, CoreWeave, Nebius Group, Rocket Lab, and Teradyne while removing Charter Communications, Cognizant, Insmed, Verisk Analytics, and Zscaler, effective at today's open. It marks the first rebalance under Nasdaq's new rank-based quarterly methodology adopted in May 2026, tilting the index further toward AI infrastructure. The S&P 500 made a separate two-stock swap the same day, triggering forced buying and selling from index funds tracking roughly $800 billion in assets.