Wall Street Trading Explodes as Stock Rout Sparks Year-End Angst
- Trading levels were some of the heaviest of the year this week
- ‘A much more persistent decline’ than February’s stock swoon
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If you asked investors a few months ago what they’d remember about this year’s market, it would’ve been the storm of volatility that laid everything low in February.
That episode is starting to seem quaint. Maybe nothing out of the ordinary is happening to stocks by historical standards, but try telling that to traders, who instead of relaxing for the holidays just lived through one of the most trying stretches since the bull market began.