Broader Tech Rally Hangs on Fed Getting Closer to Cutting Rates

  • Nasdaq 100 beats its equal-weight version for seven weeks
  • Investors have been piling into big names and AI winners

The Nasdaq MarketSite in New York.

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A broad equity rally isn’t spilling over into the technology sector, where gains are still concentrated in just a few artificial intelligence winners that have become defensive plays amid an uncertain macroeconomic backdrop.

An equal-weight version of the Nasdaq 100 Index, which makes no distinction between software giant Microsoft Corp. and drugmaker Moderna Inc., has trailed its cap-weighted peer for seven consecutive weeks through Friday’s close, the longest streak of underperformance since the first week of February 2020, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Before that, a lag this consistent happened only a handful of times ever — in 2017, 2012 and 2007.