In a live Q&A on the Markets Today blog, we asked experts from across the newsroom for their analysis of this week’s market volatility.

Here is a lightly edited transcript of the conversation.

Here’s: Abhishek Vishnoi, Bloomberg’s Senior Asia Equities Reporter:

“The meltdown, which had erased trillions of dollars from global equities, is deeply rooted in fears of a deeper U.S. economic slowdown and a historic shift in Japan’s interest rates and violent rotation away from heavyweight tech stocks due to their high valuations.