Chart of the week: the FANG frenzy

The FANG+ index consists of ten tech stocks has just eclipsed the 3,000 mark for the first time.

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Is the dotcom bubble back? You'd be forgiven for thinking so given the buying frenzy in the tech sector. The FANG+ index consists of ten tech giants, including Amazon, Google's parent Alphabet, Facebook and China's Tencent and Baidu. It has just eclipsed the 3,000 mark for the first time, as Russ Mould of AJ Bell points out, and only took 1,365 days from its inception at 1,000 to get there. By contrast, the broader tech benchmark, the Nasdaq Composite index, needed 1,570 days, just over four years, to go from 1,000 to 3,000. Valuations aren't nearly as overstretched now as they were then, but given the inauspicious outlook for the sector (see Viewpoint), investors should treat the tech giants with extreme caution.

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