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by rsynnott 442 days ago
> Do you think normal people (think, your average investing American) are trading based on this news?

We ~know that they were: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-market-pummeled-401k-acco...

As always, normal people sell low and likely buy high (I'd bet that a lot of the already-fading market euphoria yesterday was retail trading).