Chart of the week: FANGs are out
<p>News that America’s Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission will conduct wide-ranging probes into the market power of several tech giants sent their share prices tumbling. Investors fear growth-busting breakups. Telltale warning signs have been floating around for a year, yet they deepened in May and June. These companies have come a long way from the garages and dorm rooms where they were founded. Fresh-faced innovation has given way to mistrusted maturity. The FANGs are just too big and too powerful to be left alone.</p>
12 July 2019 News that America’s Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission will conduct wide-ranging probes into the market power of several tech giants sent their share prices tumbling. Investors fear growth-busting breakups. Telltale warning signs have been floating around for a year, yet they deepened in May and June. These companies have come a long way from the garages and dorm rooms where they were founded. Fresh-faced innovation has given way to mistrusted maturity. The FANGs are just too big and too powerful to be left alone. Read more about their future in ‘America’s technology giants are in the antitrust spotlight‘, an article in our latest InvestmentInsights.