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Big Tech is still doing the heavy lifting
RBC just raised its S&P 500 price target, and the message is basically: if the market wants to keep climbing, Big Tech may have to keep showing up like the overachiever in group project season.
The call leans on the idea that mega-cap tech can keep powering index-level gains, even if the rest of the market is more “meh” than magical. That matters because when the biggest names rally, they can make the whole index look healthier than the average stock underneath it.
Why investors should care
This isn’t really about one company, even if Alphabet and its fellow tech giants are clearly part of the story. It’s about how concentrated the rally has become — and how much your portfolio may still depend on a relatively small club of market leaders.
If RBC is right, the market’s next leg higher may not come from a broad, everyone-gets-a-turn kind of move. It may come from the same few giants doing what they’ve done all year: carrying the furniture uphill.
Big picture: when the market’s biggest names are in the driver’s seat, the index can keep grinning even if the average stock is just trying to find its shoes.