What's Wrong With Tech?

It's not impossible for the stock market as a whole to go up if technology stocks don't. But it sure is hard for a short-term stock rally to turn into an honest-to-goodness bull market without the sector of Cisco(CSCO Quote), Intel(INTC Quote) and Microsoft(MSFT Quote) leading the way.

That's especially true if the financial sector, that other great bull-market leader, is struggling under the weight of more-than-expected interest rate increases from the Federal Reserve.

So even if you don't own a single technology share, you'll want to know the odds that technology stocks will get it together and take on the role of bull-market leader that the sector so often assumed in the 1990s. ...