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  • As a shareholder I hope they close it but that's not something FIDo does
  • I've been looking at this fund for a couple years, but just felt it was getting too big even back then. That doesn't seem to effect growth funds investing in FANG apparently.
  • edited January 2016
    Ignorance here, as usual. "FANG" has been used on MFO with some frequency lately. Google only comes up with a stock ticker for Diamondback Energy. What this "FANG" mean?
  • edited January 2016
    Old_Joe said:

    Ignorance here, as usual. "FANG" has been used on MFO with some frequency lately. Google only comes up with a stock ticker for Diamondback Energy. What this "FANG" mean?

    CNBC term meaning, "Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google", so that they can play to the retail audience who goes, "I KNOW THOSE NAMES!" and then does this:

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    ....until the next market decline, where they look at their FANG stocks on their phone on their CNBC app and do this:

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  • Thanks Scott. A good New Year to you!
  • edited January 2016
    Old_Joe said:

    Ignorance here, as usual. "FANG" has been used on MFO with some frequency lately. Google only comes up with a stock ticker for Diamondback Energy. What this "FANG" mean?

    CNBC just literally showed Diamondback before an interview with the CEO calling it "the original FANG stock." Oy.

    Good new year to you, as well.
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