$S&P 500(.SPX)$ $SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust(SPY)$
$Apple(AAPL)$ is about 10% of the SPY which is the S&P 500 and $Invesco QQQ Trust-ETF(QQQ)$ $NASDAQ 100(NDX)$ . The Federal Government has over 6 million employees (Civil Service, Postal and four military branches) that are participants in the Federal Retirement TSP Plan.
Every participant contributes 5 to 15% of their gross salary into the TSP every two weeks with the Federal Government matching an additional 5% of salary.
Although there are several investments to choose from the overwhelming majority of employees contribute to the C Fund which is the S&P 500 (SPY). Every two weeks a total of 26 times each year millions of government employees buy more and more of the S&P 500.
This is a massive continuous investment in those 500 stocks of which 30% are the Magnificent Seven with APPLE COMPUTER the biggest beneficiary of the windfall!
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