| A completed correction in stocks that has refreshed a bull market looks and acts just like the opening act of a bear market, in which powerful rallies are beguiling traps and the overshoots happen to the downside.
This is why anyone trying to characterize the recent oppressive sell-down in the indexes — and the outright dismantling of many sectors — should heed Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell's remark last week that one should embrace "humility" in handicapping complex phenomena such as inflation or market cycles.
With that disclaimer out there, it's fair to say the broad retreat in share prices leading to last week's mercurial thrashing across wide daily ranges and strong tension-release rally on Friday fit reasonably well the profile of a proper correction process noisily running its course.
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