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"Debí Tirar Más Fotos" made history as first Spanish-language album to win Grammys' top honor

Super Bowl halftime show is viewed by upward of 100 million people each year

Bad Bunny has been one of music's dominant global innovators for a decade

Broad diversification will be a balm should giants stumble and fall

Market concentration was commonplace until 1967 according to Vanguard Investment Advisory Research Center analysis

Given concentration in U.S. market it is more prudent to hold cash bonds and ensure stock bond investments include broad international allocations

It is wise to invest in stocks and use cheap broad low cost index funds

Alphabet made up more than 5.6 percent of index when including both share classes

Fidelity Investments sent letter saying Fidelity 500 and Fidelity Total Market were operating as nondiversified funds since Nov 10

Fund's performance may be hurt by poor performance of few stocks or single stock and fund's shares may experience significant fluctuations in value

S.E.C. gave index funds authority to operate in nondiversified way if disclosed to shareholders and market became nondiversified

Benchmarks of those funds remain same

Market will become diversified again if biggest stocks decline more rapidly than smaller stocks

U.S. stock market has become so concentrated that even broad index funds are no longer well diversified

S&P 500 index funds contain several stocks that each account for more than 5 percent of index

A handful of companies like Nvidia Microsoft Alphabet and Apple have been driving stock returns

Nvidia made up 7.8 percent of market on Dec 31 2025

Microsoft accounted for 6.2 percent

Apple accounted for 6.9 percent of index

Situation has changed for first time since advent of widely available index funds in 1970s