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Happy Weekend!

今天又是我们的周末特辑了。

In recent weeks, the U.S. stock market has come down quite bit. In today’s episode, let’s introduce an article to dissect the drop.

The piece is titled: Stock Market Is Top-Heavy, but Carnage Is Widespread

• The big ones: (0:29”): Eight companies are to blame for nearly half the stock market’s decline this year—and the pain doesn’t end there.

• How did they do in the past: (2:29”): For years, investors favored the relatively expensive shares of fast-growing companies, many of them tied to technology, over their cheaper, slower-growing counterparts.

• The new reality: (3:49”): Some market strategists say big tech’s dominant era might be in the rearview mirror.