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  • stocks on Wall Street tumbled Friday.

  • The three major indexes suffered their worst weekly declined since October as frenzy trading in heavily shorted stocks hurt investor sentiment.

  • The Dow, S and P 500 NASDAQ ended Friday roughly 2% lower for the week.

  • The three indexes each dropped more than 3% for the month.

  • The Dow and S and P finished in the Red Clear Bridge Investments investment strategist Jeffrey Scholesy says the index's could pull back up to 10% because market sentiment is overly bullish.

  • We thought that positioning was pretty stretched as we came into January.

  • Optimism was off.

  • The charts put call ratios were at levels last seen in 20 years ago.

  • He also had record margin positioning.

  • There is a lot of optimism and all of the investor sentiment survey, so I think the market was due for a bit of a breather, a little bit of a consolidation.

  • Worries of a short squeeze grew Friday.

  • A some trading platforms allowed retail investors to resume trading shares of Gamestop and costs.

  • Shares of the video game retailer jumped 68% and the headphone manufacturer rose 53%.

  • Hedge funds betting that those stocks would fall recently sold off investor favorites to cover billions of dollars in losses.

  • Apple and Amazon were among the big decliners.

  • Shares of Johnson and Johnson fell nearly 4%.

  • The drug maker said its single dose vaccine was 72% effective in the U.

  • S and 66% globally in preventing Cove in 19.

  • But that fell short of the high bar set by Pfizer.

  • Beyond Tech and Madonna, who's vaccines were found to be 95% effective when given in two doses.

stocks on Wall Street tumbled Friday.

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