CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (MarketWatch) — It’s a bad sign for the stock market that many investors are souring on the hedge fund industry.That’s because hedge funds are in the business of — I know you’ll be surprised by this — hedging. In essence, the average hedge fund offers investors a trade-off: In return for outperformance during bear markets, it lags […]
More money found it’s way out of the large cap indexes, moving into midcaps, biotechs and select leading names. Trading volume was light as the day was pretty slow. Leading stocks continue to outperform without flashing buy signals. Some of the outperformance is simply holding steady as the indexes sag. The biotech indexes, on the other hand, remain in strong […]
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