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What to make of the sell-off in the NASDAQ

The tech-heavy NASDAQ 100 was down again today at the time of writing, bringing its slump since a record intraday high on 29th April to around 6%. Five of the largest “big tech” firms (Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google and Facebook), which have a collective weight in the index of more than 40%, have all fallen back to a greater or lesser extent since then.

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