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“These schools,” Cieslikowski said, “are essentially selling their students’ attention to the highest bidder.”

And for more than six years, Louis' project remained a little-known hobby he did in his spare time, self-publishing the first two translated books of War & Peace and selling a handful of copies.

The recent selling could reflect steady profit-taking rather than panic dumping, they said, a pattern consistent with behavior seen in previous bull-market cycles.

But there’s an explanation for the selling that has slowly, quietly emerged: Investors’ hopes for a December interest-rate cut have faded.

Margin calls often lead to forced selling, which can cascade and lead to even bigger market pullbacks.