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As the social media company finally prepares for its public debut, the IPO markets are at a standstill.

Yet for the Wall Street drama this week, the bull market powered on thanks to soothing economic data and strong reports from Meta Platforms and Amazon.com. The twist: The easy buy-and-hold trade on the Magnificent Seven is now on shakier ground.

Alphabet: It was an anxious stretch for bulls by any measure. The 13th gain in 14 weeks for the Nasdaq 100 masked wildly divergent reactions in stocks whose soaring valuations are threatening what has long been a monolithic trade in tech heavyweights. Among the five tech giants that announced quarterly results this week, two of them saw their stocks go up post earnings while three were down, breaking the almost lockstep rally that’s been fueled by optimism over artificial intelligence since early 2023.

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One big obstacle deterring potential IPO buyers is comfortable returns available elsewhere with far lower risk.