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Making sense of the markets this week: September 7Each week, Cut the Crap Investing founder Dale Roberts shares financial headlines and offers context for Canadian investors. 
The U.S. tech sector is worth more than the entire European stock market
Your first thought is likely: “That doesn’t make sense.” How could one sector from the U.S. be worth more than the collective stock markets in Europe? But that’s where we stand today, according to Bank of America. 
The U.S. tech sector is now worth $9.1 trillion, compared to $8.9 trillion for the European stock markets—and that includes stocks out of Great Britain and Switzerland. 
Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet (Google’s holding company) and Facebook alone account for $7.5 trillion in value. 
The most common word I hear to describe the above is “bubble”. And the time period that will be mentioned for comparison is the late 1990’s and the dot-com bubble era. I’ve even seen it described as the return of dot-comedy. Of course the tech rally of the 1990’s led to a spectacular crash…

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