Earlier this year, I was invited to a soiree at the trendy Malmaison Hotel in London, a sniff away from Smithfield meat market.  The occasion was the 150th anniversary of Foreign & Colonial, an investment trust that through thick and thin (the 2008 financial crisis, two world wars, depressions and …

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A computer model built by Goldman Sachs is signaling that a bear market is right around the corner, but some strategists at the investment bank are not listening to their own indicator.