Perhaps the biggest phenomenon of the massive U.S. equity investing scene has been the rise of small investors using the robinhood.com no-commission investment brokerage and similar platforms like eToro. Indeed, sites like Robinhood are probably the principal reason that U.S. equities have been performing so well amidst the worst recession the U.S. has probably ever seen.
If one looks at the listing of the most popular Robinhood-sourced equity holdings over the year to date as recorded by independent website Robintrack.net, these are dominated by tech stocks - thus perhaps largely accounting for the rise