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Do the Machines Driving Markets Remember 2000?

Quant strategies are even more overweight in this tech-led stocks rally than individual investors.

That was then. — That was then.
Photographer: HENNY RAY ABRAMS/AFP/Getty Images

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January 14, 2020, 5:01 AM UTC

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Let’s look to the short term. Not for the first time, a new decade has started with stock markets roaring ahead, and tech in the lead, while optimism abounds. This famously happened in 2000.