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Has the Market Been De-FAANG’d?

Has the Market Been De-FAANG’d?
The apps for Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple with the reflexion of a binary code are displayed on a tablet screen in Paris on April 20, 2018. Lionel Bonaventure/AFP via Getty Images
J.G. Collins
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Wall Street loves acronyms nearly as much as the United States military, so it was inevitable that some wag–reportedly CNBC stock picker Jim Cramer–came up with “FAANG” to mean Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google somewhere around 2013.

J.G. Collins
J.G. Collins
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J.G. Collins is managing director of the Stuyvesant Square Consultancy, a strategic advisory, market survey, and consulting firm in New York. His writings on economics, trade, politics, and public policy have appeared in Forbes, the New York Post, Crain’s New York Business, The Hill, The American Conservative, and other publications.
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