By Douglas A. McIntyre
Publication Date: 2026-05-26 13:52:00
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Microsoft’s OpenAI Deal Falls Apart
Mag 7 Has Trailed The Market
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The Magnificent 7 are supposed to comprise the world’s hottest megacap companies. Their businesses will control the future. They are a mix of AI, search, the future of vehicles and robots, Alphabet (parent company of Google), Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Meta Platforms (parent company of Facebook and Instagram), Microsoft, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), and Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) hold the keys to everything from jobs to electricity. Their market caps, as a whole, exceed $20 trillion. That is about the same as China’s GDP.
As a group, they are up 5% this year. The S&P 500, on the other hand, is up 9%. Among other things, their futures have become unbundled. None is more unbundled than Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), which is down…
