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Overreaction

Overreaction is an emotional response to new information. In finance and investing, it is an emotional response to a security like a stock or other investment, which is led either by greed or fear. Investors, overreacting to news, cause the security to become either overbought or oversold, until it returns to its intrinsic value.

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