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  1. The 2016 United States presidential election was the twelfth contested election for the Libertarian Party of the United States. The 2004 presidential election saw Libertarian nominee Michael Badnarik appear on ballots in 48 states plus the District of Columbia .

  2. Quant hedge fund manager Roy Niederhoffer, the founder of New York-based R.G. Niederhoffer Capital Management, is off to a tremendous start in 2016. Advertisement. The $731 million...

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    In the late 1960s, many academics believed in the efficient market hypothesis, ie, that stock and asset prices embody all available information, making it impossible to beat the market. Niederhoffer set out to disprove the theory by finding evidence of market anomalies, such as the fact that stockmarket returns tend to be higher on certain days of ...

    Niederhoffer's career was characterised by long periods of success followed by dramatic collapses. After making $5m in the market on his own, he had a successful career with Soros. Initially, his investment funds would do even better, but they suffered crippling losses in the 1997 Asian financial crisis, forcing him to return the remaining money to...

    Niederhoffer made a series of bets in 1979, believing that rising inflation would lead to interest-rate rises and drive down bond prices. He sold US Treasury bonds and aggressively bought gold and silver. He turned an initial $50,000 stake into $10m by early 1980 ($32.6m in 2014 prices). However, the value of his portfolio plunged to $5m before he ...

    His rigorous data analysis and willingness to investigate any relationship that might give him an edge made him one of the first Wall Street "quants" traders who use statistics to produce very large returns. However, his two meltdowns demonstrate how using large amounts of leverage can lead to catastrophic losses, especially when markets turn out t...

  3. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (November 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This is a list detailing the electoral history of the Libertarian Party in the United States, sorted by office.

  4. May 29, 2016 · After endless speculation that the Republican Party's divided primary might end in a contested convention in Cleveland and continued theories that the Democrats' primary could end in Philadelphia...

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  5. May 9, 2016 · All the BBC's coverage of all 2016 UK Elections including news, analysis and results.

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  7. May 5, 2016 · The Greens overtook the Lib Dems. Full results from the Scottish Parliament elections, external. Wales: Labour 29, Plaid Cymru 12, Conservatives 11, UKIP 7, Lib Dems 1. UKIP had a good night...

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