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Fast-money quants are buying stocks as human traders stay put

BLOOMBERG While stock-picking investors wait around trying to decide their next market move, their computer-driven counterparts have no such luxury. The quants’ taskmasters — trend lines on charts and volatility targets — are forcing them into a concerted buying spree, just as the bond market creates fresh headaches for traditional money managers. One pool of rules-based money, Commodity Trading Advisors, ...

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Stocks edge higher as US Treasuries hold below 4%

BLOOMBERG Global stocks edged higher Tuesday, as Treasury bond yields held below the key 4% mark and investors waited to see what policy message Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell would deliver at his Congressional testimony later in the day. Contracts on the S&P 500 pointed to a bounce after the underlying gauge closed flat, having erased a gain of as ...

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