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		NoahZuniga 7 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: $1T in tech stocks sold off as market grows skepti... You can only have a $1T tech stock sell off if $1T of tech stocks are bought.

dragonwriter 7 days ago [–]

Based on the body of the article, the headline is using “$X tech selloff” as unintuitive shorthand for “loss of $X of market value in aggregate market capitalization of tech stocks”, not as a reference to trading volume.

Ekaros 7 days ago | [–]

So correspondingly there has been trillions in tech buying in past years?

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