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Oct 20, 2026
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Keith Richards’ Top Picks for Oct. 20, 2026 - BNN Bloomberg
Original article ↗Key figures
The top 10 stocks now hold roughly 40 per cent of the S&P 500 index.
Soon, nearly 50 per cent of the S&P will be a roll of the dice on AI.The passive share of the market – aka retail investors- hold Index ETF’s.
One source I read showed passive index exposure to equities is well over 50 per cent.
These institutions hold the 10 big tech names in They hold & do not sell, given their passive mandate.
Look what happened to TXN in June & July – a 30 per cent drop with a massive gap down in one day alone!
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Excerpt from BNN Bloomberg
Keith Richards, President, Chief Portfolio Manager, ValueTrend Wealth Management
Focus: Technical Analysis
Top Picks: State Street Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR ETF, WSP Global, BMO Equal Weight Global Base Metals Hedged to CAD Index ETF
MARKET OUTLOOK:
On my last BNN show in September, I called ValueTrend’s approach to the markets as the “buy anything but tech trade”. That, of course, was contrarian in light of the market’s sole focus on tech stocks at the time. It would appear that my call for buying “anything else but tech” is coming to fruition.…
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