Stumbling stock market raises spectre of dot-com era reckoning

Echoes of that era are reverberating now. The technology this time is artificial intelligence. After a wild stock market rally that sent the S&P 500 soaring 72% from its trough in October 2022 to its peak last month, adding more than $22 trillion of market value in the process, signs of trouble are emerging. Stocks are starting to sink, with the Nasdaq 100 losing more than 10% to fall into a correction and S&P 500 briefly dropping to that level. And the symmetry is raising frightening memories from a quarter century ago.

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