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"Middle East supply restoration or demand weakness could reverse the oil-price support behind the top-ranked energy judgment.",
"Quality scores are constructed from price history, not business fundamentals; unreported sector deterioration could make apparent overreactions persistent.",
"Ethereum's extreme reported return and volatility, plus the missing dispersion statistic, reduce confidence in cross-sectional tail calibration."
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