For the first half of this year, technology stocks — especially those linked to the expected boom in artificial intelligence — propelled major indexes around the world higher.
The tech sector has risen faster than any other sector and twice as quickly as all of them this year, except for communications companies, which include the likes of Amazon.
Just a handful of stocks accounted for nearly two-thirds of the gains in the S&P 500 this year.
Shares of businesses that could benefit from this growth — smaller companies, banks and real estate businesses — have all rallied in the past two weeks, while Big Tech has stumbled.
It might not be a smooth transition — as trading on Wednesday, when stocks had their worst day since late 2022, showed.
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