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Tariff-Fueled Market Rout Cost Chicago’s Pensions $1 Billion

(Bloomberg) -- Four Chicago pension funds are estimated to have lost nearly $1 billion amid the market rout set off by President Donald Trump’s tariff policies, a blow to the city’s retirement programs that are among the least funded of all major US cities.Most Read from BloombergHow Did This Suburb Figure Out Mass Transit?The Secret Formula for Faster TrainsEven Oslo Has an Air Quality ProblemNYC Tourist Helicopter Crashes in Hudson River, Killing SixLisbon Mayor Wants Companies to Help Fix Cit

Systematica fund down 19% following market rout

A listed version of Systematica Investments' flagship hedge fund is down roughly 19% this year, as some trend-following strategies have struggled to navigate the market turmoil caused by the new U.S. trade policies. The Schroder Gaia BlueTrend fund, which invests in rates, equities, currencies and commodities, is a listed version of Systematica's flagship BlueTrend hedge fund. The firm, with $17 billion in assets under management, is led by Leda Braga, BlueCrest Capital's former president and head of Systematica trading.

S&P 500's 'death cross' may not be as ominous as it sounds, analysts say

NEW YORK (Reuters) -A tariff-induced selloff in the U.S. stock market faces another worry, the "death cross" pattern, but history shows the ominous sounding technical signal may not necessarily mean equities face more significant downside. A death cross occurs when the 50-day moving average (DMA), seen by technicians as a proxy for the intermediate-term trend, slips below the 200-DMA, a proxy for the long-term trend. Technical analysts view the occurrence as marking a spot where a shorter-term correction could turn into a longer-term downtrend.