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• UBS: Here are the 10 most crowded bets in the stock market right now

  26-08-2017 19:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  UBS released its monthly list of which stocks are the most crowded trades in the stock market right now.
  As a stock's price climbs higher, investors clamor to gain a piece of the action. But this mob mentality can be disastrous when the prices eventually turn negative once again.
  The bank calculated which stocks were overcrowded by comparing institutional ownership data from FactSet and aggregate positions of global active managers against the relative equity benchmark to form wha
  
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• Amazon once again flashes its ability to destroy the competition

  26-08-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  By announcing sweeping price cuts at Whole Foods, which it recently acquired, Amazon once again succeeded in wreaking havoc on the grocery industry.
  It's just the latest example of the company wiping out billions of dollars of competitors' market caps with a corporate announcement, and it's bound to happen again.
  Competitors' stock prices are looking more sensitive to Amazon's news than their own.
  Amazon is once again sending shockwaves rippling through the retail industry.
  The Jeff Bezos-led j
  
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• Sears is closing 28 more Kmart stores — here's the full list (SHLD)

  26-08-2017 18:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sears on Thursday said it was closing another 28 Kmart stores in addition to 180 previously announced closings this year.
  The retailer announced this with its earnings statement that showed a quarterly loss, as the number of people visiting its stores continued to fall. Sales at stores open for at least a year fell 11.5% in the second quarter ended July 29.
  All but one store will close by mid-November, Sears said.
  Sears has shrunk from the largest US retailer to a company plagued by fears of ban
  
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• Trump's inability to get anything done is crushing one key area of the stock market

  26-08-2017 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  As President Donald Trump struggles to pass legislation of any kind, investors are losing patience with the area of the stock market that was supposed to benefit most from his pro-business agenda.
  The group in question is small-cap companies. And to fully understand their reversal of fortune, think back to the weeks following the presidential election — a time when Trump's proposed policies were still viewed as imminently achievable and potentially lucrative for domestic-focused corporatio
  
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• 20 college towns where landlords make the most money from students who live off campus

  26-08-2017 17:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Students are heading back in droves to college campuses around the country this month.
  One major perk about returning for your second year is trading in the dorms for off-campus living. But while that may feel freeing — no more curfew! — renting an apartment or house that's convenient to class and your favorite dining halls won't come cheap in some areas.
  HomeUnion, a real-estate investment management firm, recently released a list of the college towns with the highest off-campus ren
  
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• The market is starting to freak out about the debt ceiling

  26-08-2017 15:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Investors are starting to brace for yet another debt-ceiling debacle.
  The evidence of that is found in Treasury bills, an often-overlooked but highly sensitive market that reflects the premium investors want for lending to the US government.
  The Treasury Department auctions bills that mature within a year to borrow from the public. Amid concern that the government will run out of funding mid-October, the yields on Treasury bills due that month are spiking.
  Yields on bills due October 5 rose Thur
  
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• Gundlach fires back at report saying investors are fleeing his biggest fund

  26-08-2017 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Over the weekend, The Wall Street Journal published a story that highlighted declining assets under management for "bond king" Jeffrey Gundlach's DoubleLine Total Return Bond Fund.
  After holding as much as $61.7 billion in assets last September, the fund saw outflows in each of the next nine months and saw that number fall 13% to $53.6 billion as of July 31, according to The Journal. That happened during a time when competing funds took in net inflows of 7.2%, the report said.
  The Journal attri
  
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• Hedge funds betting on stocks are having their best year since 2009 — but they're still getting smoked by the market

  26-08-2017 14:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Equity hedge funds are off to their best start to a year since 2009, but they're still trailing the S&P 500.
  In a market that's been largely devoid of price swings, hedge funds have been piling into the same proven stocks.
  The performance of stock hedge funds this year isn't exactly providing a ringing endorsement for the industry.
  The average fund is up 7% in 2017, the best seven-month start to a year since 2009, when the market hit its post-financial crisis bottom and embarked upon the on
  
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• The most important pillar of the bull market is starting to crumble

  26-08-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Well, it was a fun ride while it lasted.
  Red-hot corporate earnings growth — historically the biggest contributor to share-price appreciation — has nowhere to go but down, Strategas Research Partners says.
  This is significant because any sort of slowdown would deprive the market of its most crucial driver — one that has helped keep the stock market afloat amid middling economic data and elevated geopolitical risk.
  A big part of Strategas' argument stems from the fact that the
  
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• There’s a clear link between America’s opioid crisis and unemployment

  26-08-2017 11:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  President Donald Trump has declared America’s surging use of opioids as a national emergency even as his budget cuts funding for some of the very health programs that target recovery from addiction. 
  A new study documents the relationship between drug use and persistent unemployment or underemployment. While drug use, and especially the opioid epidemic, has been widely discussed, the other issues have fallen off the radar screen of most economists as the headline unemployment rat
  
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