Investors are unloading long-held stocks in leading sectors still selling well above the levels of recent years, as well as some others bought more recently that are down by half or more since March. The tax selling, which is pushing prices lower, will end December 31 and should start diminishing well before that.
Many depressed stocks are already well oversold on fundamentals.
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