LONDON, July 5 (Reuters) - Dismissal of this year's much-scorned equity market rally as the frothy preserve of a handful of AI-fuelled stocks may be both misleading and also one of its strengths.
Or, put another way, if you remove the top 10 stocks, the other 490 would only have gained 4%.
And an eye-popping 75% surge in the high-octane 10-stock FANG+TM index (.NYFANG) - mega cap U.S. digital and tech stocks including Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla - underlines that.
In short, they're hard to avoid unless you dodge either U.S.-listed companies or equity markets altogether.
"While stock market investments may be risky in the short run, when viewed against inflation they have offered far more certainty in the long run," he told clients.
Persons:
Russell, Andrew Lapthorne, Japan's, Germany's DAX, Italy's, Duncan Lamont, Lamont, Mike Dolan, Mark Potter
Organizations:
Nasdaq, Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Tesla, H1 Stock, Japan's Nikkei, MIB, McKinsey, Bank, Big Tech, Reuters, Twitter, Thomson
Locations:
Europe, Japan, U.S, United States