The stock market is advancing without help from the FAAMNGs, which analysts say is a bullish sign

It wasn’t that long ago — last summer, in fact — when analysts were wringing their hands over the narrowness of the stock market’s advance.

That was when the so-called FAAMNG stocks — Facebook FB, Apple AAPL, Amazon AMZN, Microsoft MSFT, Netflix NFLX and Google holding company Alphabet GOOG GOOGL — were dominating the market and were largely…