John Authers, Columnist

Do the Machines Driving Markets Remember 2000?

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

January 14, 2020 at 5:01 AM UTC

John Authers is a senior editor for markets and Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former chief markets commentator at the Financial Times, he is author of “The Fearful Rise of Markets.”

That was then.
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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.