The Liquidity ‘Illusion’ Has These Funds Making Plans for a Stock Doomsday

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A small band of humans is taking up arms against the rise of the machines.

Fund managers who ride big sell-offs in stocks are relishing fresh Wall Street warnings that robots and the like are leaving the bull market more vulnerable to explosions in volatility and crashes in liquidity.