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U.S. stocks delivered one of their sharpest mood swings in months on Thursday.

The Nasdaq Composite

ended down 2.16% after spending the morning stateside up as much as 2.6%. The wild swings from high to low (regrettably, not in the opposite direction) were also seen in the S&P 500