Trend-Following Quant Funds Just Dumped U.S. Stocks

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The trend is not your friend in today’s languishing stock market -- and that’s an understatement.

Trend-following quant funds are shedding over $50 billion in notional exposure to U.S. equities, according to Charlie McElligott, cross-asset strategist at Nomura Securities.