overreact
Example Sentences
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The financial press often overreacts about the bullish or bearish momentum behind popular investment themes.
From MarketWatch
For Ms. Thompson, a historian at the University of Michigan, the Goetz case is not a nuanced tale of a scared passenger overreacting to a perceived threat.
The problem is that investors and market outsiders often take him at his word, when he’s merely throwing out options, and thus overreact.
From Los Angeles Times
“The market overreacts habitually to anxiety as it relates to our sector,” Nuttall told analysts Thursday.
Over time, investors are best served holding steady through volatility and thinking longer term amid the market’s tendency to overreact.
From Barron's
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