The Wild Ride of the Giant 5 Stocks (APPL, MSFT, AMZN, GOOG, FB) v. the Rest of the Market
Sep 5, 2020
Suddenly, a whiff of "Don't fight the Fed?"
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET.
Over the last two trading days, Thursday and Friday, the Giant 5 stocks combined fell by 7.4% in value. The Nasdaq dropped 6.2% over those two days. For Apple, the most giant of them all, the selloff started on Wednesday:
Apple [AAPL]: -7.9% in 2 days; in 3 days: -9.9%, or -$226 billion.
Alphabet [GOOG]: -7.9%
Amazon [AMZN]: -6.7%
Facebook [FB]: -6.5%
Microsoft [MSFT]: -7.5%
The Giant 5 market capitalization had hit a new mind-boggling record of $7.81 trillion on Wednesday - despite Apple's drop - having skyrocketed from their crisis-low ($4.1 trillion, on March 11) by 91%, or by $3.72 trillion, just these five stocks. Seen in this light, and in the light of their 271% rocket-ride since January 2017, this two-day drop, which wiped out $578 billion in market capitalization and was the steepest two-day drop since March 9 (-12.9%), is really just a small squiggle .......Læs mere
https://wolfstreet.com/2020/09/05/the-wild-ride-of-the-giant-5-stocks-appl-msft-amzn-goog-fb-v-the-rest-of-the-market/
Sep 5, 2020
Suddenly, a whiff of "Don't fight the Fed?"
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET.
Over the last two trading days, Thursday and Friday, the Giant 5 stocks combined fell by 7.4% in value. The Nasdaq dropped 6.2% over those two days. For Apple, the most giant of them all, the selloff started on Wednesday:
Apple [AAPL]: -7.9% in 2 days; in 3 days: -9.9%, or -$226 billion.
Alphabet [GOOG]: -7.9%
Amazon [AMZN]: -6.7%
Facebook [FB]: -6.5%
Microsoft [MSFT]: -7.5%
The Giant 5 market capitalization had hit a new mind-boggling record of $7.81 trillion on Wednesday - despite Apple's drop - having skyrocketed from their crisis-low ($4.1 trillion, on March 11) by 91%, or by $3.72 trillion, just these five stocks. Seen in this light, and in the light of their 271% rocket-ride since January 2017, this two-day drop, which wiped out $578 billion in market capitalization and was the steepest two-day drop since March 9 (-12.9%), is really just a small squiggle .......Læs mere
https://wolfstreet.com/2020/09/05/the-wild-ride-of-the-giant-5-stocks-appl-msft-amzn-goog-fb-v-the-rest-of-the-market/
6/9 2020 11:11 Thorkild01 3
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