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  <title id="t">The equity crowd panics fast but rarely turns euphoric</title>
  <desc id="d">Investor sentiment runs from extreme fear to extreme greed. CFGI data shows the stock crowd reaches deep into extreme fear quickly, but rarely pushes into extreme greed, so equity sentiment lives mostly on the fear side of the scale.</desc>
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  <text x="40" y="52" font-size="26" font-weight="800" fill="#0F172A">Equities Panic Fast, Cheer Slowly</text>
  <text x="40" y="80" font-size="15" fill="#5A6578">The stock crowd reaches extreme fear quickly, but rarely extreme greed</text>

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    <text x="80" y="276">0</text><text x="420" y="276">50</text><text x="760" y="276">100</text>
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  <text x="360" y="160" font-size="12.5" font-weight="700" fill="#0284C7" text-anchor="middle">where equity sentiment lives</text>
  <text x="690" y="200" font-size="11" fill="#5A6578" text-anchor="middle">rarely reaches here</text>

  <text x="410" y="330" font-size="13" fill="#5A6578" text-anchor="middle">It dips into extreme fear but stops short of extreme greed, unlike crypto.</text>
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