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EdmondDantes_

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7. Any number of reasons

Reply to mobeau69 (Original post)

Thu Apr 2, 2026, 11:07 AM

Thursday

Could be the oil spike. Could be someone thought they saw a value buy, could be irrational hope, could be enough people had an automatic buy if a stock dropped low enough. The market isn't so simple that any one factor controls everything.

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