Ah, Yes: My Sentiments Exactly

Hedge funds are profiting from the emotions of the masses.

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By Jay Akasie

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(Illustration by Joe McLaren)

When a professor at Carnegie Mellon University searched for negative words in news databases — “unemployment,” “layoffs” and “fear,” for example — he noticed a high correlation to a drop in the U.S.

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