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| | | | | | Lead Stories | | | Get Used to Stock Market Volatility for a While
Mohamed A. El-Erian - Bloomberg
After a relatively smooth ascent in valuations and profits since March 2020, stocks had a bumpy and unsettling first month of 2022. In addition to the sharp drop in markets in January, the dizzying intraday volatility added uncertainty and contributed to an unsettled feeling about the future, and not just because of the marked change in the policy stance of the Federal Reserve. The volatility is likely to stick around, at least for a while.
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Stock Market Outlook: 3 Factors to Gauge If Stock Market Has Bottomed
Matthew Fox - Business Insider
Last week's whiplash in the stock market was extreme, with the Nasdaq 100 trading in a 7% range before finishing the week virtually flat.
Investors are receiving mixed messages from the market, with investor sentiment nearing extreme pessimistic levels while positioning in stocks remains elevated. The whiplash comes as the Federal Reserve prepares to tighten monetary policies with higher interest rates.
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Top Hedge Funds Citadel, Millennium Shift $4 Trillion Sector From Rock Stars
Nishant Kumar - Bloomberg
The most successful idea in hedge funds is now simply strength in numbers.
Investors are plowing money into funds that don't rely on the next macro genius or star stockpicker, but instead offer an army of traders who invest in an array of strategies. These behemoths secured pretty much all of the new money in the hedge fund industry last year, cementing a tectonic shift that's accelerated since the pandemic.
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Funds pile on CBOT grain, oilseed longs amid export uncertainties -Braun
Karen Braun - Reuters
Speculators ramped up bullish views in Chicago corn and soybeans last week with futures notching or nearing new highs, but despite the unusually strong optimism, investors are much less invested than a year ago.
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Oil investors realise some profits as market looks stretched
John Kemp - Reuters
Portfolio investors took some profits last week after a blistering rally in oil prices since the start of December left the market looking increasingly overheated in the short term.
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| | | | | | Strategy | | | A Smart Set of Funds to Quell the Concerns of Panicked Clients
David Sterman - Barron's
For many financial advisors, the phones have been ringing off the hook this month as clients fret about sudden dips in their portfolios. Many of those clients are alarmed by neck-snapping drops and surges as the Dow Jones Industrial Average ends the worst January since the 2008-09 financial crisis.
That kind of volatility can unnerve even the calmest investors. Indeed, the VIX index (which is also known as the "fear index"), a measure of volatility, has moved up from the teens a few weeks ago, and now hovers near 30, its highest reading in nearly a year.
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What the VIX Is Telling Us About Where Volatility Could Be Headed for Crypto
Chris MacDonald and Jon Quast - The Motley Fool
Volatility in the cryptocurrency world is par for the course, but this recent period of volatility has been something else. In this Jan. 19 episode of "The Crypto Show" on Backstage Pass, Fool.com contributors Chris MacDonald and Jon Quast discussed how to manage the volatility among Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) and other tokens moving forward.
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| | | | | | Miscellaneous | | | Libor Was Made Up Anyway
Matt Levine - Bloomberg
The way that global financial markets worked for decades is that trillions of dollars of floating-rate loans and interest-rate derivatives were indexed to Libor, the London interbank offered rate. And the way Libor worked was that someone â at the time relevant to our story it was the British Bankers' Association â would call up a group of big international banks and ask them "how much would you have to pay right now to borrow dollars for one month," and they'd answer, and the BBA would take some trimmed average of their answers, and that was one-month dollar Libor. And there were other Libors for other currencies and tenors, computed in the same way.
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Who Really Got Rich From the GameStop Revolution?
Spencer Jakab - WSJ
When Reddit became the rowdy center of the investing universe last January, its co-founder Alexis Ohanian called the frenzy a "revolution" and a "chance for Joe and Jane America, the retail buyers of stock, to flex back and push back." Maybe one day, he mused, the members of Reddit's WallStreetBets forum could do more than just ambush hedge funds - they could outperform those highly-paid investors.
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Cryptocurrency is in a hiring frenzy -- and you might just be a fit
Vicki Salemi - New York Post
It's a bold new world, and as cryptocurrency gains mainstream street cred, there's a sizzling gold rush in hiring.
According to a new Indeed report, searches for careers in cryptocurrency and blockchain (the technology which supports it) have spiked, and postings for careers in the field have jumped by 118 percent as of July 2021, compared with the previous year.
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