Apple, Microsoft and NVIDIA are now bigger that Canada's main stock index

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Here's a mind-bending fact about today's financial world – Apple, just one company, is now worth more than all of Canada's major public companies combined.

Let that sink in. The entire S&P/TSX Composite Index – that's 222 of Canada's biggest public companies – is valued at 3.7 trillion Canadian dollars. Apple's worth? Even more. And it's not alone. Both Microsoft and NVIDIA have also crossed this remarkable threshold.