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bull market has leaders, and those leaders have terrific characteristics.

They make a lot of money.

There's a limited number of them, and there aren't too many shares around

because these companies constantly buy those shares back,

something they can do.

Why?

Because they're spewing cash and have beautiful balance sheets.

As recently as a few months ago, that described pretty much all the mega-cap tech stocks.

But now we're searching for new leadership because tech can no longer be trusted.

That's how you get a day like today where the NASDA spent most of the session deep in the red for a late-after-room rebound.

Dow finished up 86 points, S&P, declined 0.26%.

But even after the rebound, the NASDAQ sunk 0.97%. Just think about it. Tech stocks have been the

key leaders of this market ever since the mini-bank crisis in the spring of 2023, ever since.

We tend to forget, but that's when the Magnificent 70 merge.

That's when we began to see the semiconductors war.

It's when the enterprise software soared.

Everything taxed, save the commodity chipmakers, just took off.

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