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Treasury Secretary Bessent says market woes are more about tech stock sell-off than Trump's tariffs

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the Nasdaq peaked on DeepSeek day , not the Trump tariffs.

The Chinese AI startup's new language models sparked a rout in U.S. technology stocks in late January .

The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite is down about 13% from its record high reached December 16 .

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