 "Technology companies make up the five most valuable companies in the world by market capitalisation.")
Facebook. Amazon. Apple. Netflix. Google.
Not only do they dominate our daily lives, but as their stocks continue to soar, these technology giants may also dictate our financial futures.
In the last three years, their share prices have risen far faster than the major market indexes — Amazon leads the way, up 206 per cent; Apple trails the pack with a 67 per cent gain — as investors of virtually every stripe have piled into these companies.
But this gold-rush mentality, reminiscent of investor frenzies for Nifty 50 stocks in the late 1970s and the dot-com boom and bust at the end
