Wall Street dumped nearly $1 trillion in tech stocks by midday—then clawed it back and bought peanut butter and paint

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Today, the Nasdaq Composite looked like a V: down more than 4% by lunchtime, closing off just 1%.  Nobody knows exactly why. Around noon, the AI jitters came back, and traders dumped the highest-beta names—the frothiest, most volatile stuff, like Strategy (MSTR), the leveraged bitcoin vehicle that had popped Monday; AppLovin (APP); the photonics maker […]

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