{"id":37993,"date":"2025-07-21T16:16:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=37993"},"modified":"2025-07-21T16:16:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:16:45","slug":"wall-street-meets-web3-fintech-etfs-spy-voo-to-get-jack-dorsey-upgrade-as-block-joins-sp-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=37993","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street Meets Web3: Fintech ETFs, SPY, VOO To Get Jack Dorsey Upgrade As Block Joins S&amp;P 500"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Jack Dorsey\u2019s<strong> Block<\/strong> <strong>Inc<\/strong> (NYSE:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/XYZ#NYSE\">XYZ<\/a>) has officially entered the big leagues, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/etfs\">index-tracking ETFs<\/a> such as <strong>SPDR S&amp;P 500 ETF TRUST <\/strong>(NYSE:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/SPY#NYSE\">SPY<\/a>) and <strong>Vanguard S&amp;P 500 ETF<\/strong> (NYSE:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/VOO#NYSE\">VOO<\/a>) are coming along for the ride. <\/p>\n<p>Stocks of the fintech titan famous for its Square point-of-sale machines and Cash App, rose by almost 8% in regular trading on Monday morning following news that the firm would be included in the S&amp;P 500 index. The addition, effective before Wednesday\u2019s market open, is a milestone event for Block and a disruption for S&amp;P 500-tracking ETFs.<\/p>\n<p>Block will take the place of <strong>Hess Corp<\/strong> (NYSE:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/HES#NYSE\">HES<\/a>), which is being taken over by oil behemoth <strong>Chevron Corp <\/strong>(NYSE:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/CVX#NYSE\">CVX<\/a>), in the S&amp;P 500 roster.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/trading-ideas\/movers\/25\/07\/46518405\/block-stock-is-soaring-monday-whats-going-on\">Block Stock Is Soaring Monday: What\u2019s Going On?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Why ETFs Such As SPY &amp; VOO Matter<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The headline action doesn\u2019t only concern Block shareholders; it could have spillover effects on passive ETFs such as the SPY and VOO, which must now include millions of Block shares to &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/etfs\/sector-etfs\/25\/07\/46524500\/wall-street-meets-web3-fintech-etfs-spy-voo-to-get-jack-dorsey-upgrade-as-block-joins-sp-500\" alt=\"Wall\" street meets web3: fintech etfs spy voo to get jack dorsey upgrade as block joins s>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Dorsey\u2019s Block Inc (NYSE:XYZ) has officially entered the big leagues, and index-tracking ETFs such as SPDR S&amp;P 500 ETF TRUST (NYSE:SPY) and Vanguard S&amp;P 500 ETF (NYSE:VOO) are coming along for the ride. Stocks of the fintech titan famous for its Square point-of-sale machines and Cash App, rose by almost 8% in regular trading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-37993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}