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Goldman Claims Formula to Determine When Minimum Wage Hike Hurts or Helps Certain Stocks

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Mark Melin
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The fight over a minimum wage hike currently being waged across the U.S. will create winners and lowers as well as a potential relative value trade. A Goldman Sachs report notes that, with interest in the issue building, there is a formula to determine what stocks might benefit from a boost in the minimum wage.

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Even before a federally mandated minimum wage, wages are rising around the world

As if perhaps identifying a strong and persistent trend, Goldman equity analysts Matthew Fassler, Stephen Tanal, Karen Holthouse, Taposh Bari and Lindsay Crucker Mann note wages are going up around the country currently even without a $15 per hour Federal...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.