Market swings this week highlighted the competing dynamics playing out in financial markets as the economy rebounds from shutdowns designed to halt the spread of the coronavirus, the Wall Street Journal reports. Investors for weeks sold SPACs and popular internet companies, rotating into shares of banks and energy producers they believed would fare better as the economy recovers and government-bond yields rise. Read more.
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