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The reduction, which includes 15% of senior management, is part of a larger effort to cut costs and automate more business.

A growing body of research is looking into whether the expanding influence of passively managed funds is making companies less willing to compete.

The firm’s new CEO Ronald O’Hanley is pushing to reduce expenses, automate more functions and simplify organizational structure.

Slower economic growth and increased market volatility have investors seeking large companies with healthy balance sheets.

Daily volume jumped 22% to 20 million contracts in 2018.

A recent herding to the sector may be more of a gut reaction rather than a careful evaluation.

Inversions have occurred seven times since the early 1950s and all but one of those instances preceded equity gains.

In the Treasury market, all eyes remain on the yield curve after three-year yields climbed above those of the five-year bonds.

Price moves have become more pronounced among the companies managers expect to rise.

Investors have grown cautious following October’s rout in global markets.

Some were unable to access the firm’s website while the S&P 500 experienced its worst decline in nine months.

Sentieo is a financial research platform that allows analysts to do financial research, annotate documents and collaborate with colleagues all within the same software.

“There’s just right now a heightened sensitivity to what can go wrong,” one strategist says.

The fund culls data on more than 6,000 public companies each day before picking about 100 of them to own.

Rising interest rates and trade war threats are promulgating the rout in equities.

Nuveen has pared allocations to non-U.S. developed market equities, while JPMorgan is dialing back global stocks positions in favor of U.S. shares.

While sector holdings previously were pretty similar among issuers, distinctions as a result of the shuffle are expected to be stark.

The fund recorded its biggest inflow since inception a week before plans from the S&P and MSCI to group together internet and media stocks.

Playing both sides of the coin may be one of the few ways to avoid getting caught by this year’s schizophrenic market.

Investors moved nearly 2 million shares worth $55 million into two SPDR funds in a matter of hours.