How the Mag 7 Became the Lag 7 -- and What's Ahead for the Stocks
Stick a fork in it. Turn out the lights. Hasta la vista.Say it anyway you'd like. The simple truth is the Magnificent Seven trade is over. Finito. Dead. The collective stock market outperformance of those seven tech icons -- Alphabet, Amazon.com, Apple, Meta Platforms, Nvidia, Microsoft, and Tesla -- is now a thing of the past.The group may still do OK, and some of the individual stocks may even kill it, but the slam-dunk, set-it-and-forget-it, run-circles-around-the-market era of the Mag Seven is gone with the wind.True, folks predicted the demise of the Mag Seven's dominance last year, and it didn't happen. What's different now is that artificial intelligence has thickened the plot.First, AI subverts the tech giants' economies of scale by lowering the relatively high fixed cost