What did we learn from 2016?

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Jeremy Lang looks back at the events of 2016 and asks what lessons we can take

Last year was a reminder of how unusual the stock market is as a market. It is not a single market, it is a messy, interlocking set of submarkets in thousands of individual stocks. Most of the trad...

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