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Many people view the stock market and the economy as two sides of the same coin. Sure, they belong together somehow, but they don’t correlate according to fixed laws. If the economy is weak, stocks can still rise – and vice versa. A report from the Bloomberg stock exchange service about a largely unknown London hedge fund that is betting on the decline of the German economy has now caused a stir. Qube Research & Technologies (QRT), the name of the investment company, sold German stocks short with a volume of over one billion euros.