⚠️CHART OF THE WEEK: Market concentration has never been greater

The top 10 stocks now account for 42% of the S&P 500's market cap

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November 08, 2025

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🔥🔥 GLOBAL MARKETS INVESTOR PORTFOLIO — UP 53% SINCE JANUARY 2024 DURING THE MARCH-APRIL 2025 MARKET TURMOIL, MAJOR US INDEXES FELL NEARLY 20%, WHILE THE GMI PORTFOLIO GAINED OVER 5%, FIND OUT HOW BELOW:

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The 10 largest US stocks now account for a record 42% of the S&P 500’s total market value, 15 percentage points above the 2000 Dot-Com Bubble peak.

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At the same time, their earnings share rose to 30%.

Meanwhile, Magnificent 7 stocks’ share hit a record 38%.

Never in the history of financial markets have a handful of companies contributed so much to the world’s largest stock market.

⚠️CHART OF THE WEEK: The S&P 500 has reached historically extreme levels

Over the last 25 years, the market has seen only a few occurrences of such extremes

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