John Authers, Columnist

Tech's Bubble of Calm Is Likely to Prove Brief

The surge in options trading suggests there are more shoes to drop.

September 14, 2020 at 1:26 AM EDT

John Authers is a senior editor for markets and Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former chief markets commentator at the Financial Times, he is author of “The Fearful Rise of Markets.”

Apple puts the entire FTSE-100 in the shade.
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Is it safe to put a price on technology again? After great excitement, the solemn date of Sept. 11 proved to be the first trading day of the month when the tech-heavy Nasdaq-100 didn’t move by more than 1%, in one direction or another:

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