4:20 pm : Stocks picked up where they left off over the last two weeks -- failing to find a bottom as concerns of accelerating inflation on a global scale continued to remove some of the excessive optimism that had recently lifted the major averages to multi-year highs.
It is worth noting, though, that a renewed wave of buying interest in the last half hour of trading did offer some reassurance that a market bottom may have been reached, as the Dow and S&P erased intraday declines of more than 1.1% after briefly turning positive. Nevertheless, sellers won out again as
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