Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: With the stock price declining rapidly, analysts had to decide whether

(A) With the stock price declining rapidly, analysts had to decide whether problems in the fundamentals of the company or simply a brief hysteria among market participants were driving the price downward.
SVA error ."were" doesn't go along with singular subject brief hysteria.

(B) The stock price was declining rapidly, so analysts had to decide if problems in the fundamentals of the company, as opposed to simply a brief hysteria among market participants, was the cause of the downward
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