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Data: FactSet; Chart: Matt Phillips/Axios The momentum trade is having a terrible start to the second half. Why it matters: Momentum shares drove the market gains early in the year, and it will be harder for the rally to continue without their participation. How it works: Momentum is one of the "factors" some mathematically minded investors, known as quants , use to describe and organize the market according to certain well-understood market trends. - Momentum stocks are defined, more or less, as shares that have been going up — and outperforming the broader market — for roughly a year. - The academic research that quantitative investing is based on has found that such trends have a tendency to persist. - In other words, a momentum…
The markets are starting the week in their trillion-dollar IPO era, now that SpaceX shares are trading. Why it matters: Think of Elon Musk's company like a pebble, a big one, thrown into a giant lake of equity — there will be ripples through the public and private markets, and they'll be rippling for a while. - "Any large IPO has a gravitational pull to them, so they can have sizable effects on the public markets, on private markets and sectors," Aaron Mulvihill, a strategist at JPMorgan Asset Management, tells Axios. State of play: Those impacts take time. SpaceX made only a small slice of its shares available to the market — around 5%. - In a typical IPO, a company will offer up about 10%-20% of its shares as its float, Mulvihill…