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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Odd Lots podcast.

I'm Joe Wiesenthal.

And I'm Tracy Allaway.

Tracy, you know, one thing that sort of characterizes the stock market these days

is just this incredible dominance of a handful of gigantic tech companies.

I mean, you pointed out today, I think you tweeted a chart this morning just showing

how like if you exclude just a handful of like five companies or whatever the

S&P 500 is basically going nowhere.

Yeah, that's exactly right. So I think it's if you exclude Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google and just look at the remaining

495 companies in the S&P 500, the index is actually down 1% so far this year.

And if you only look at those five tech stocks,

those are up 40 or almost 40% this year,

which is phenomenal.

And because they're such a huge part of the index,

of course, they pull the whole thing up to about 6% year today.

What do you think about those articles, you're a journalist, what do you think about those

articles that are like, oh if you had invested?

You say that like you're not.

Oh, you're a journalist.

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