SPAC Called 5G Edge Wants to Go Public Under Ticker ‘ARK’

Cathie Wood, chief executive officer and chief investment officer of ARK Investment Management LLC.Photographer: Alex Flynn/Bloomberg
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Blank-check companies appear to be getting creative to stick out in a market now hundreds deep.

One special purpose acquisition company, the New York-based 5G Edge Acquisition Corp., filed the paperwork to go public earlier this week seeking to list on the Nasdaq under the symbol “ARK”, strikingly similar to Cathie Wood’s popular ARK ETF tickers.